Latin American Research Review (Jul 2017)

Overpowered: Control and Contingence in Haiti

  • Matthew J. Smith

DOI
https://doi.org/10.25222/larr.98
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 52, no. 1
pp. 197 – 202

Abstract

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This essay reviews the following works: Contrary Destinies: A Century of America’s Occupation, Deoccupation, and Reoccupation of Haiti. By Léon Pamphile. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2015. Pp. xviii + 203. ISBN: 9780813061023. Politics and Power in Haiti. Edited by Kate Quinn and Paul Sutton. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. xi + 202. ISBN: 9781137311993. Haiti: Trapped in the Outer Periphery. By Robert Fatton Jr. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2014. Pp. ix + 227. ISBN: 9781626370364.