Author: Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
Constitutions of Nations Volume Ii France to New Zealand
Author: The Haitian Revolution
Author: Toussaint L'OuverturePublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1788736575
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Toussaint L’Ouverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century, in which slaves rebelled against their masters and established the first black republic. In this collection of his writings and speeches, former Haitian politician Jean-Bertrand Aristide demonstrates L’Ouverture’s profound contribution to the struggle for equality.
Central Banks and Gold
Author: Simon James BythewayPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501706500
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
In recent decades, Tokyo, London, and New York have been the sites of credit bubbles of historically unprecedented magnitude. Central bankers have enjoyed almost unparalleled power and autonomy. They have cooperated to construct and preserve towering structures of debt, reshaping relations of power and ownership around the world. In Central Banks and Gold, Simon James Bytheway and Mark Metzler explore how this financialized form of globalism took shape a century ago, when Tokyo joined London and New York as a major financial center.As revealed here for the first time, close cooperation between central banks began along an unexpected axis, between London and Tokyo, around the year 1900, with the Bank of England's secret use of large Bank of Japan funds to intervene in the London markets. Central-bank cooperation became multilateral during World War I—the moment when Japan first emerged as a creditor country. In 1919 and 1920, as Japan, Great Britain, and the United States adopted deflation policies, the results of cooperation were realized in the world's first globally coordinated program of monetary policy. It was also in 1920 that Wall Street bankers moved to establish closer ties with Tokyo. Bytheway and Metzler tell the story of how the first age of central-bank power and pride ended in the disaster of the Great Depression, when a rush for gold brought the system crashing down. In all of this, we see also the quiet but surprisingly central place of Japan. We see it again today, in the way that Japan has unwillingly led the world into a new age of post-bubble economics.
Constitutions of Nations
Author: Amos Jenkins PeasleePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutions
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
Constitutions of Nations
Author: Amos J. PeasleePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401771251
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 919
Book Description
Constitution of the Republic of Haiti, 1950
Author: HaitiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Red and Black in Haiti
Author: Matthew J. SmithPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 080789415X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
In 1934 the republic of Haiti celebrated its 130th anniversary as an independent nation. In that year, too, another sort of Haitian independence occurred, as the United States ended nearly two decades of occupation. In the first comprehensive political history of postoccupation Haiti, Matthew Smith argues that the period from 1934 until the rise of dictator Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier to the presidency in 1957 constituted modern Haiti's greatest moment of political promise. Smith emphasizes the key role that radical groups, particularly Marxists and black nationalists, played in shaping contemporary Haitian history. These movements transformed Haiti's political culture, widened political discourse, and presented several ideological alternatives for the nation's future. They were doomed, however, by a combination of intense internal rivalries, pressures from both state authorities and the traditional elite class, and the harsh climate of U.S. anticommunism. Ultimately, the political activism of the era failed to set Haiti firmly on the path to a strong independent future.
The National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, International
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Haiti's New Dictatorship
Author: Justin PodurPublisher: Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN: 9781771130332
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Amid a global zeitgeist of impending catastrophe, this book explores the culture of fear so prevalent in today's politics, economic climate, and religious extremism. The authors of this collection argue that the lens of catastrophe through which so many of today's issues are examined distorts understanding of the dynamics at the heart of numerous problems, such as global warming, ultimately halting progress and transformation.
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