Haiti in the World Economy: Class, Race, and Underdevelopment Since 1700 (Latin American Perspectives Series, No 4)

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 Notes 1 French Merchant Capital and the Making of a Slave Society in Saint-Dominigue The Development of Slavery in Saint-Dominigue 2 Planter Dependency and the Demise of the Slave Regime Slave Relations of Production and Their Effects The Demise of the Old Regime Notes 3 From Revolutionary Leaders to Ruling Class Toussaint Louverture and the Transformation of Saint-Dominigue The Fall of Louverture and the Struggle for Independence Notes 4 The Growth of the Peasantry and the Stalemate of the Bourgeoisie The Failure to Restore the Plantation Economy The Causes of Peasant Poverty 5 State Power, the Color Question, and Foreign Capital The Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie and the Color Question The Repenetration of Foreign Capital and the Hegemony of the United States 6 Black Nationalism, U.S. Capital, and Underdevelopment, 1946-1986 The Post-Occupation Struggle for Power and the Resurgence of the Color Question The Duvalier Dictatorship and the Consolidation of Black Power The Hereditary Dictatorship, the Triple Alliance, and Underdevelopment The Fall of the Duvalier Dictatorship and the Reemergence of the Military Notes Conclusion Bibliography Index Alex Dupuy. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 213-227.