The Haitian people / by James G. Leyburn ; with a new introd. by Sidney W. Mintz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leyburn, James Graham.

Series:

Caribbean series ; 9.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social classes.

Haiti.

Haiti--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

Social classes--Haiti.

Physical Description:

xlviii, 342 pages : map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1980.

Summary:

Leyburn provides a connected story of the growth of Haiti's social institutions out of the backgrounds of slavery and French colonial life and the slow shaping of these institutions through the 19th century. The central thesis of the book is that Haitian society is divided into two segments, the yeomanry and the elite, and that the national institutional structure has not allowed any alteration in that division in the course of Haiti's history as a sovereign nation.

Contents:

Introduction by Sidney W. Mintz

Supplementary bibliography

Foreword

pt. 1 Caste and class

The people and their country

French colonial origins

The formative years, 1804-1843

Caste lines become permanent

Castes since the American occupation of 1915

pt. 2 Religion

Introduction

Vodum

Religious borrowings

pt. 3 Sex relations and home life

Historical background

Home life of the Élite

Domestic life of the peasants

pt. 4 Politics and economics

Politics

Constitutions and political forms

Commerce

pt. 5 Modern Haiti

Haitian problems

Problems of the Élite

Outer aspects of Haiti

The Créole language

Sociological postscript.

Notes:

Reprint of the ed. published by Yale University Press, New Haven, which was issued as no. 9 in the Caribbean series.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 1942

Other Format:

Online version: Leyburn, James Graham. Haitian people.

ISBN:

0313221553

9780313221552

OCLC:

5946646

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