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  • Washington Information Directory 2011-2012by CQ Press

    CQ Press, a Division of SAGE 2011; US$ 232.50

    Washington Information Directory (WID) is the essential one-stop source for information on U.S. governmental and nongovernmental agencies and organizations. WID provides capsule descriptions that help users quickly and easily find the right person at the right organization. more...

  • A Concise History of the Haitian Revolutionby Jeremy D. Popkin

    Wiley 2011; US$ 93.95

    This book offers students a concise and clearly written overview of the events of the Haitian Revolution, from the slave uprising in the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1791 to the declaration of Haiti’s independence in 1804. Draws on the latest scholarship in the field as well as the author’s original research Offers a valuable resource... more...

  • The Slaves Who Defeated Napoleonby Philippe R. Girard

    University of Alabama Press 2011; US$ 45.00

    To a contemporary audience, Haiti brings to mind Voodoo spells, Tontons Macoutes, and boat people--nothing worth fighting over. Two centuries ago, however, Haiti, then known as Saint-Domingue, was the “Pearl of the Antilles,” France's most valuable overseas colony, the largest exporter of tropical products in the world, and the United... more...

  • Washington DC's Most Wanted™by Brigette Polmar; Norman Polmar

    Potomac Books Inc. 2010; US$ 6.95

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  • Peaceful Places: Washington, D.C.by Judy Colbert; Denis Collins

    Menasha Ridge Press 2012; US$ 13.95

    Native Washingtonians Judy Colbert and Denis Collins have grown up and lived amid some of the most exciting sightseeing in the country--in their own grand urban backyard. They share this knowledge in Peaceful Places: Washington, DC . Now readers can enjoy the sights without being elbow-to-elbow with visitors from around the country and the world.... more...

  • Haiti and the Americasby Carla Calarge; Raphael Dalleo; Luis Duno-Gottberg; Clevis Headley

    University Press of Mississippi 2013; US$ 150.00

    Haiti has long played an important role in global perception of the western hemisphere, but ideas about Haiti often appear paradoxical. Is it a land of tyranny and oppression or a beacon of freedom as site of the world's only successful slave revolution? A bastion of devilish practices or a devoutly religious island? Does its status as the second... more...

  • Red and Black in Haitiby Matthew J. Smith

    The University of North Carolina Press 2009; US$ 28.95

    In 1934 the republic of Haiti celebrated its 130th anniversary as an independent nation. In that year, too, another sort of Haitian independence occurred, as the United States ended nearly two decades of occupation. In the first comprehensive political history of postoccupation Haiti, Matthew Smith argues that the period from 1934 until the rise of... more...

  • Plunging into Haitiby Ralph Pezzullo

    University Press of Mississippi 2006; US$ 50.00

    For much of the early 1990s, Haiti held the world's attention. A fiery populist priest, Jean Bertrand Aristide, was elected president and deposed a year later in a military coup. Soon thousands of desperately poor Haitians started to arrive in makeshift boats on the shores of Florida. In early 1993, the newly elected Clinton administration pledged... more...

  • Taking Haitiby Mary A. Renda

    The University of North Carolina Press 2001; US$ 28.95

    The U.S. invasion of Haiti in July 1915 marked the start of a military occupation that lasted for nineteen years--and fed an American fascination with Haiti that flourished even longer. Exploring the cultural dimensions of U.S. contact with Haiti during the occupation and its aftermath, Mary Renda shows that what Americans thought and wrote about... more...

  • The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture, the Negro Patriot of Haytiby John Relly Beard

    The University of North Carolina Press 2012; US$ 30.00

    Toussaint L'Ouverture (1743-1803) won international renown in the Haitian fight for independence. He led thousands of former slaves into battle against French, Spanish, and English forces, routing the Europeans and seizing control of the entire island of Hispaniola. L'Ouverture became governor and commander-in-chief of Haiti before officially acknowledging... more...