| Damming the Flood: Haiti and the Politics of Containment Contributor(s): Hallward, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 1844674665 ISBN-13: 9781844674664 Publisher: Verso OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Caribbean & West Indies - General - History | Revolutionary - History | Modern - 21st Century |
| Dewey: 972.940 |
| LCCN: 2011389753 |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (1.35 lbs) 512 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Long before a devastating earthquake hit in January 2010, Haiti was one of the most impoverished and oppressed countries in the world. However, in the late 1980s a remarkable popular mobilization known as Lavalas ("the flood") sought to liberate the island from decades of US-backed dictatorial rule. Damming the Flood analyzes how and why the Lavalas governments led by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide were overthrown, in 1991 and again in 2004, by the enemies of democracy in Haiti and abroad. The elaborate campaign to suppress Lavalas was perhaps the most successful act of imperial sabotage since the end of the Cold War. It has left the people of Haiti at the mercy of some of the most rapacious political and economic forces on the planet. Updated with a substantial new afterword that addresses the international response to the earthquake, Damming the Flood is both an invaluable account of recent Haitian history and an illuminating analysis of twenty-first-century imperialism. |