Haiti - A Country Study

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INTRODUCTION COUNTRY PROFILE: Haiti GEOGRAPHY SOCIETY ECONOMY TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS NATIONAL SECURITY Chapter 6. Haiti: Historical Setting SPANISH DISCOVERY AND COLONIZATION FRENCH COLONIALISM French Settlement and Sovereignty Colonial Society: The Conflicts of Color and Class THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION Toussaint Louverture INDEPENDENT HAITI Christophe's Kingdom and Pé Boyer: Expansion and Decline DECADES OF INSTABILITY, 1843-1915 THE UNITED STATES OCCUPATION, 1915-34 POLITICS AND THE MILITARY, 1934-57 FRANÇ JEAN-CLAUDE DUVALIER, 1971-86 Chapter 7. Haiti: The Society and Its Environment GEOGRAPHY POPULATION Migration Fertility and Family Planning SOCIAL STRUCTURE The Upper Class The Middle Class Peasants Urban Lower Class GENDER ROLES AND FAMILY LIFE THE LANGUAGE QUESTION Changes in Language Use Creole, Literacy, and Education RELIGIOUS LIFE Roman Catholicism Protestantism EDUCATION Primary Schools Secondary Education Higher Education HEALTH Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Health Services Welfare Chapter 8. Haiti: The Economy GROWTH AND STRUCTURE OF THE ECONOMY ECONOMIC POLICY Expenditures Revenues Monetary and Exchange-Rate Policies LABOR AGRICULTURE Land Tenure and Land Policy Land Use and Farming Technology Crops Food Crops Forestry Livestock and Fishing INDUSTRY Assembly Manufacturing Domestic Manufacturing Construction Mining Energy SERVICES Transportation and Communications Tourism FOREIGN ECONOMIC RELATIONS Balance of Payments Foreign Debt Foreign Assistance Chapter 9. Haiti: Government and Politics BACKGROUND: FROM DUVALIER TO AVRIL, 1957-89 THE CONSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK THE GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEM Governmental Institutions The Functions of the State Urban Dominance, Rural Stagnation POLITICAL DYNAMICS Army Politics: Force and Counterforce The President as Strongman Perceptions of Democracy The Mass Media INTEREST GROUPS Political Parties The Upper and the Middle Classes Other Groups FOREIGN RELATIONS Chapter 10. Haiti: National Security THE MILITARY IN HAITIAN HISTORY ARMY POLITICS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Franç Jean-Claude Duvalier, 1971-86 The Post-Duvalier Period THE ROLE OF THE ARMED FORCES MILITARY SPENDING AND FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ARMED FORCES ORGANIZATION AND STRUCTURE THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM AND PUBLIC ORDER The Legal Framework Public Order

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