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 under
Author(s): Alex Dupuy
Series: Latin American Perspectives
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor & Francis)
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 256
City: New York
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
