Reviews

Review published on Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Author: 
Jana Evans Braziel, Nadege T. Clitandre, eds.
Reviewer: 
Nadève Ménard

Ménard on Braziel and Clitandre, 'The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat'

Jana Evans Braziel, Nadege T. Clitandre, eds. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 464 pp. $126.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-350-12353-3; $157.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-12352-6.

Reviewed by Nadève Ménard (École Normale Supérieure, Université d’État d’Haïti) Published on H-Haiti (April, 2022) Commissioned by Chelsea Stieber (Catholic University of America)

Review published on Monday, February 28, 2022
Author: 
Chelsey L. Kivland
Reviewer: 
Vincent Joos

Joos on Kivland, 'Street Sovereigns: Young Men and the Makeshift State in Urban Haiti'

Chelsey L. Kivland. Street Sovereigns: Young Men and the Makeshift State in Urban Haiti. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. xxvii + 274 pp. $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-4698-7; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5017-4699-4.

Reviewed by Vincent Joos (Florida State University) Published on H-Haiti (February, 2022) Commissioned by Grégory Pierrot (University of Connecticut at Stamford)

Review published on Thursday, April 15, 2021
Author: 
Sudhir Hazareesingh
Reviewer: 
Gaetan Mentor

Mentor on Hazareesingh, 'Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture'

Sudhir Hazareesingh. Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. 464 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-374-11266-0.

Reviewed by Gaetan Mentor (Historien, Chercheur et spécialiste indépendant, Membre et Trésorier de la Société Haïtienne d’Histoire, de Géographie et de Géologie) Published on H-Haiti (April, 2021) Commissioned by Chelsea Stieber (Catholic University of America)

Review published on Thursday, April 15, 2021
Author: 
Sudhir Hazareesingh
Reviewer: 
Gaetan Mentor

Mentor on Hazareesingh, 'Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture'

Sudhir Hazareesingh. Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. 464 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-374-11266-0.

Reviewed by Gaetan Mentor (Independent scholar and member of the Société Haïtienne d’Histoire, de Géographie et de Géologie) Published on H-Haiti (April, 2021) Commissioned by Chelsea Stieber (Catholic University of America)

Review published on Friday, November 20, 2020
Author: 
Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec
Reviewer: 
Frances Bell

Bell on Le Glaunec, 'The Cry of Vertieres: Liberation, Memory, and the Beginning of Haiti'

Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec. The Cry of Vertieres: Liberation, Memory, and the Beginning of Haiti. Translated by Jonathan Kaplansky. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. 256 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-228-00140-9.

Reviewed by Frances Bell (College of William & Mary) Published on H-Haiti (November, 2020) Commissioned by Chelsea Stieber (Catholic University of America)

Review published on Thursday, April 16, 2020
Author: 
Jean Alix René
Reviewer: 
Chelsea Stieber

Stieber on Gonzalez, 'Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti' and Jean Alix René, 'Haiti après l'esclavage: Formation de l'état et culture politique populaire (1804-1846)'

Johnhenry Gonzalez. Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti. Yale Agrarian Studies Series. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. Illustrations. 320 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-23008-6.Jean Alix René. Haiti après l'esclavage: Formation de l'état et culture politique populaire (1804-1846). Port-au-Prince: Editions Le Natal, 2019. 453 pp. n.p. (paper), ISBN 978-999706514-8.

Review published on Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Author: 
Patrick Bellegarde-Smith
Reviewer: 
Celucien L. Joseph

Joseph on Bellegarde-Smith, 'In the Shadow of Powers: Dantes Bellegarde in Haitian Social Thought'

Patrick Bellegarde-Smith. In the Shadow of Powers: Dantes Bellegarde in Haitian Social Thought. Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 2019. 256 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8265-2226-9.

Reviewed by Celucien L. Joseph (Indian River State College) Published on H-Haiti (March, 2020) Commissioned by Grégory Pierrot (University of Connecticut at Stamford)

Review published on Friday, November 8, 2019
Author: 
Makenzy Orcel
Reviewer: 
Jocelyn Franklin

Franklin on Orcel, 'Maître-minuit: roman'

Makenzy Orcel. Maître-minuit: roman. Paris: Zulma, 2018. 309 pp. EUR 20.00 (paper), ISBN 978-2-84304-835-7.

Reviewed by Jocelyn Franklin (University of Colorado) Published on H-Haiti (November, 2019) Commissioned by Grégory Pierrot (University of Connecticut at Stamford)

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Review published on Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Author: 
Jana Evans Braziel
Reviewer: 
Peter Haffner

Haffner on Braziel, 'Riding with Death: Vodou Art and Urban Ecology in the Streets of Port-au-Prince'

Jana Evans Braziel. Riding with Death: Vodou Art and Urban Ecology in the Streets of Port-au-Prince. Jackson: University of Mississippi, 2017. 276 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4968-1274-2.

Reviewed by Peter Haffner (Centre College) Published on H-Haiti (September, 2019) Commissioned by Grégory Pierrot (University of Connecticut at Stamford)

Review published on Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Author: 
Greg Beckett
Reviewer: 
Claire Payton

Payton on Beckett, 'There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince'

Greg Beckett. There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. 312 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-30024-8.

Reviewed by Claire Payton (University of Virginia) Published on H-Haiti (August, 2019) Commissioned by Grégory Pierrot (University of Connecticut at Stamford)

Review published on Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Author: 
Erica R. Johnson
Reviewer: 
Robert D. Taber

Taber on Johnson, 'Philanthropy and Race in the Haitian Revolution'

Erica R. Johnson. Philanthropy and Race in the Haitian Revolution. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. xii + 249 pp. $109.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-319-76143-5.

Reviewed by Robert D. Taber (Fayetteville State University) Published on H-Haiti (July, 2019) Commissioned by Grégory Pierrot (University of Connecticut at Stamford)

Review published on Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Author: 
Emmelie Prophète
Reviewer: 
Nathan Dize

Dize on Prophète, 'Le reste du temps'

Emmelie Prophète. Le reste du temps. Montreal: Mémoire d'encrier, 2013. 165 pp. CND 13.95 (paper), ISBN 978-2-89712-474-8.

Reviewed by Nathan Dize (Vanderbilt University) Published on H-Haiti (March, 2019) Commissioned by Grégory Pierrot (University of Connecticut at Stamford)

Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=53365

Review published on Friday, September 14, 2018
Author: 
Anne Eller
Reviewer: 
Sophie Maríñez

Maríñez on Eller, 'We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom'

Anne Eller. We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. 400 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-6237-1.

Reviewed by Sophie Maríñez (Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY) Published on H-Haiti (September, 2018) Commissioned by Grégory Pierrot (University of Connecticut at Stamford)

Review published on Sunday, May 20, 2018
Author: 
Terry Rey
Reviewer: 
Chris Bongie

Bongie on Rey, 'The Priest and the Prophetess: Abbé Ouvière, Romaine Rivière, and the Revolutionary Atlantic World'

Terry Rey. The Priest and the Prophetess: Abbé Ouvière, Romaine Rivière, and the Revolutionary Atlantic World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 344 pp. $74.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-062584-9.

Reviewed by Chris Bongie (Queen's University) Published on H-Haiti (May, 2018) Commissioned by Grégory Pierrot (University of Connecticut at Stamford)

Review published on Monday, December 18, 2017
Author: 
Philippe Girard
Reviewer: 
Vanessa Mongey

Mongey on Girard, 'Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life'

Philippe Girard. Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life. New York: Basic Books, 2016. 352 pp. $29.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-09413-4.

Reviewed by Vanessa Mongey (Newcastle University, UK) Published on H-Haiti (December, 2017) Commissioned by Grégory Pierrot

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