Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall is Professor of History at California State University-San Marcos.

"Alyssa Sepinwall has produced a superb collection of powerfully insightful essays by outstanding Haitian and non-Haitian historians that should appeal equally to specialists and non-specialists. The work makes three important contributions. The essays are based on exhaustively researched original and secondary sources . The introduction to the sections present the best analysis of the extant historiography and will be a boon to all scholars with an interest in Haiti. The work persuasively demonstrates the extraordinary importance of the Haitian experience to regional, international and thematic histories. This is the perfect introduction to the complex history of the world after the age of revolutions not only providing a nuanced account of the Haitian Revolution but also of the complicated international context in which a new black state had to forcefully defend its precarious existence."– Franklin W. Knight, Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History, Director, Center for Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University"Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall invites readers to familiarize themselves with broader and more sophisticated interpretations of Haitian history. This excellent compilation of articles will be welcome by scholars, students and general readers who are interested in thinking about Haiti as it always ought to be understood -- as a country whose history is rich, complex, and connected to strides and the struggles of citizens from many nations around the world." – Chantalle F. Verna, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History and International Relations, Florida International University"The articles in this book illuminate our understanding and reveal the forces present in the history of the Haitian nation-state ... Sepinwall meets the challenge brilliantly in showcasing the most recent research on Haiti..." – Claudy Delné, French Studies, June 2013

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionSection I: From Saint-Domingue to HaitiIntroduction1. An Unthinkable History: The Haitian Revolution as a Non-Event, Michel-Rolph Trouillot 2. Slave Resistance (from The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below), Carolyn E. Fick 3. Saint-Domingue on the Eve of the Haitian Revolution, David P. Geggus 4. "I am the Subject of the King of Congo": African Political Ideology and the Haitian Revolution, John K. ThorntonSection II: Independent Haiti in a Hostile World: Haiti in the Nineteenth CenturyIntroduction 5. The Politics of "French Negroes" in the United States, Ashli White 6. Talk About Haiti: The Archive and the Atlantic’s Haitian Revolution, Ada Ferrer 7. Sword-Bearing Citizens: Militarism and Manhood in Nineteenth-Century Haiti, Mimi Sheller 8. Rural Protest and Peasant Revolt, 1804 – 1869, David Nicholls9. "The Black Republic": The Influence of the Haitian Revolution on Northern Black Political Consciousness, 1816 – 1862, Leslie M. Alexander Section III: From the Occupation to the Earthquake: Haiti in the Twentieth and Twenty-First CenturiesIntroduction10. Under the Gun (from Haiti and the United States: The Psychological Moment), Brenda Gayle Plummer 11. VIVE 1804! The Haitian Revolution and the Revolutionary Generation of 1946, Matthew J. Smith 12. Dynastic Dictatorship: The Duvalier Years, 1957 – 1986, Patrick Bellegarde-Smith13. The Water Refugees (from AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame), Paul Farmer14. The Rise, Fall, and Second Coming of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Robert Fatton, Jr.15. Eternity Lasted Less Than Sixty Seconds…, Évelyne TrouillotIndex

Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall is Professor of History at California State University-San Marcos.

"Alyssa Sepinwall has produced a superb collection of powerfully insightful essays by outstanding Haitian and non-Haitian historians that should appeal equally to specialists and non-specialists. The work makes three important contributions. The essays are based on exhaustively researched original and secondary sources . The introduction to the sections present the best analysis of the extant historiography and will be a boon to all scholars with an interest in Haiti. The work persuasively demonstrates the extraordinary importance of the Haitian experience to regional, international and thematic histories. This is the perfect introduction to the complex history of the world after the age of revolutions not only providing a nuanced account of the Haitian Revolution but also of the complicated international context in which a new black state had to forcefully defend its precarious existence."– Franklin W. Knight, Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History, Director, Center for Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University"Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall invites readers to familiarize themselves with broader and more sophisticated interpretations of Haitian history. This excellent compilation of articles will be welcome by scholars, students and general readers who are interested in thinking about Haiti as it always ought to be understood -- as a country whose history is rich, complex, and connected to strides and the struggles of citizens from many nations around the world." – Chantalle F. Verna, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History and International Relations, Florida International University"The articles in this book illuminate our understanding and reveal the forces present in the history of the Haitian nation-state ... Sepinwall meets the challenge brilliantly in showcasing the most recent research on Haiti..." – Claudy Delné, French Studies, June 2013

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionSection I: From Saint-Domingue to HaitiIntroduction1. An Unthinkable History: The Haitian Revolution as a Non-Event, Michel-Rolph Trouillot 2. Slave Resistance (from The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below), Carolyn E. Fick 3. Saint-Domingue on the Eve of the Haitian Revolution, David P. Geggus 4. "I am the Subject of the King of Congo": African Political Ideology and the Haitian Revolution, John K. ThorntonSection II: Independent Haiti in a Hostile World: Haiti in the Nineteenth CenturyIntroduction 5. The Politics of "French Negroes" in the United States, Ashli White 6. Talk About Haiti: The Archive and the Atlantic’s Haitian Revolution, Ada Ferrer 7. Sword-Bearing Citizens: Militarism and Manhood in Nineteenth-Century Haiti, Mimi Sheller 8. Rural Protest and Peasant Revolt, 1804 – 1869, David Nicholls9. "The Black Republic": The Influence of the Haitian Revolution on Northern Black Political Consciousness, 1816 – 1862, Leslie M. Alexander Section III: From the Occupation to the Earthquake: Haiti in the Twentieth and Twenty-First CenturiesIntroduction10. Under the Gun (from Haiti and the United States: The Psychological Moment), Brenda Gayle Plummer 11. VIVE 1804! The Haitian Revolution and the Revolutionary Generation of 1946, Matthew J. Smith 12. Dynastic Dictatorship: The Duvalier Years, 1957 – 1986, Patrick Bellegarde-Smith13. The Water Refugees (from AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame), Paul Farmer14. The Rise, Fall, and Second Coming of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Robert Fatton, Jr.15. Eternity Lasted Less Than Sixty Seconds…, Évelyne TrouillotIndex