Haiti in the World Economy: Class, Race, and Underdevelopment Since 1700

Alex Dupuy

2019435 pages

This book seeks to explain the causes of Haiti's underdevelopment since the end of the seventeenth century. During the 1960s and 1970s several original paradigms emerged to explain the causes and persistence of underdevelopment in Latin America and the Caribbean. In the renewed effort to understand the associated processes of development and underd

Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 French Merchant Capital and the Making of a Slave Society in Saint-Dominigue 2 Planter Dependency and the Demise of the Slave Regime 3 From Revolutionary Leaders to Ruling Class 4 The Growth of the Peasantry and the Stalemate of the Bourgeoisie 5 State Power, the Color Question, and Foreign Capital 6 Black Nationalism, U.S. Capital, and Underdevelopment, 1946-1986 Conclusion Bibliography Index