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Free and French in the Caribbean
Indiana University Press 2013; US$ 22.99In Free and French in the Caribbean, John Walsh studies the writings of Toussaint Louverture and Aimé Césaire to examine how they conceived of and narrated two defining events in the decolonializing of the French Caribbean: the revolution that freed the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1803 and the departmentalization of Martinique and other French... more...
Upholding Democracy
ABC-CLIO 1998; US$ 168.00An inside account of the U.S. military operation to restore Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power in 1994, this study demonstrates progress made in joint warfighting in the period following the end of the Cold War, including improvements in command and control, joint force integration, and techniques for successful humanitarian operations.^L... more...
Backpacks Full of Hope
Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2010; US$ 21.95Backpacks Full of Hope: The UN Mission in Haiti describes the experience of a Chilean general as Deputy Force Commander of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) during the particularly turbulent year September 2005 to September 2006. It details the realities of commanding more than 7,000 men from eleven countries while working... more...
Fixing Haiti
United Nations University Press 2011; Not AvailableHaiti may well be the only country in the Americas with a last name. References to the land of the black Jacobins are almost always followed by the phrase the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. To that dubious distinction, on 12 January 2010 Haiti added another, when it was hit by the most devastating natural disaster... more...
Frommer's Washington D.C. with Kids
Wiley 2012; US$ 17.99Insider advice on the most fun and educational experiences for kids of all ages in the nation's capital. This completely updated edition is full of incredibly detailed tips - right down to which hotels offer cribs and rollaway beds and which restaurants offer high chairs and kids' menus. Where to find hands-on, interactive museums; the best children's... more...
Haitian History--Sepinwall
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95Despite Haiti's proximity to the United States, and its considerable importance to our own history, Haiti barely registered in the historic consciousness of most Americans until recently. Those who struggled to understand Haiti's suffering in the earthquake of 2010 often spoke of it as the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, but could not explain... more...
Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Eating Disorders
Guilford Publications 2008; US$ 46.00This book provides the first comprehensive guide to the practice of "enhanced" cognitive behavior therapy (CBT-E), the latest version of the leading empirically supported treatment for eating disorders. Written with the practitioner in mind, the book demonstrates how this transdiagnostic approach can be used with the full range of eating disorders... more...
Facing Racial Revolution
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 18.00The only truly successful slave uprising in the Atlantic world, the Haitian Revolution gave birth to the first independent black republic of the modern era. Inspired by the revolution that had recently roiled their French rulers, black slaves and people of mixed race alike rose up against their oppressors in a bloody insurrection that led to the... more...
Haiti
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 16.99Why has Haiti been plagued by so many woes? Why have multiple U.S. efforts to create a stable democracy in Haiti failed so spectacularly? Philippe Girard answers these and other questions, examining how colonialism and slavery have left a legacy of racial tension, both within Haiti and internationally; Haitians remain deeply suspicious of white foriegners'... more...









