Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Fathers of national independence (1804 -1825)
3. Pride and prejudice (1820 - 1867)
4. Liberals and Nationals (1867 - 1910)
5. Occupied Haiti (1911 - 1934)
6. Literature and dogma (1930 - 1945)
7. Authentics and their adversaries (1946 - 1957)
8. Culture and tyranny (1957 - 1971)
9. Conclusion

About the Author

David Nicholls is a major authority on Haiti, and was in the country as a newspaper correspondent during the 1987 election disaster. His other books include Haiti in Caribbean Context: Ethnicity, The Pluralist State, and Deity and Domination.

Reviews

Probably the best book written about Haitian history after its independence... a thorough, thoughtful, extremely well-researched work.
*Handbook of Latin American Studies*

Step by step, [Nicholls] guides us through the various historical time periods of Haitian political and national development, illuminating each one of them by a cogent and learned discussion of the main idea and ideologies that accompanied them.
*The Political Quarterly*

Rich in subject matter and eminently relatable, this book is also a fine work of scholarship. The more than 1,200 footnotes are models of clarity and relevance; the bibliography and index seem scrupulously accurate... While each generation must rewrite its own history, as Nicholls remarks, no book on Haiti for a long time to come will probably be able to ignore the analysis he here provides.
*Ethnic and Racial Studies*