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Damming the Flood : Haiti and the Politics of Containment by Peter Hallward is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Long before a devastating earthquake hit in January 2010, Haiti was one of the most impoverished and oppressed countries in the world. However, in the late 1980s a remarkable popular mobilization known as Lavalas (“the flood”) sought to liberate the island from decades of US-backed dictatorial rule. __Damming the Flood__analyzes how and why the Lavalas governments led by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide were overthrown, in 1991 and again in 2004, by the enemies of democracy in Haiti and abroad.
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Peter Hallward
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781789601152
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Political Science, American Studies
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