Haiti Will Not Perish: A Recent History
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (709 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 178360798X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 500 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Deibert's exhaustive reportage gets an edge from his righteous anger on behalf of a people with whomhe has a deep and abiding connection. Its great strength is Deibert’s sharp ear for Haiti’s many voices, for too long muted by a jaundiced media.” . An invaluable sourcebook for theperiod, and also a riveting read." - Madison Smartt Bell, author of All Soul's Rising“An engrossing tour through Haiti’s extraordinary history of survival
In this moving and detailed history, Michael Deibert, who has spent two decades reporting on Haiti, chronicles the heroic struggles of Haitians to build their longed-for country in the face of overwhelming odds. . Home for more than a decade to one of the world’s largest UN peacekeeping forces, Haiti has a tumultuous political culture—buffeted by coups and armed political partisans—that combined with economic inequality and environmental degradation, created immense difficulties even before a devastating earthquake leveled the capital of Port-au-Prince in 2010, killing tens of thousands of people. The world’s first independent black republic, Haiti was forged in the fire of history’s only successful slave revolution. Yet more than two hundred years later, the full promise of the revolution—a free country and a free people—remains