Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History

Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti

<strong>Laurent Dubois is the John L. Nau III Bicentennial Professor in the History &amp; Principles of Democracy at the University of Virginia, as well as the co-director for academic affairs at the UVA’s Democracy Initiative. He is a specialist on the history and culture of the Atlantic world, and his scholarship spans the Caribbean (particularly Haiti), North America, and France. </strong>

Laurent Dubois

Haiti Reimagined: On Marlene L. Daut’s “Awakening the Ashes” and Jake Johnston’s “Aid State”

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

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"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Laurent Dubois is the John L. Nau III Bicentennial Professor in the History &amp; Principles of Democracy at the University of Virginia, as well as the co-director for academic affairs at the UVA’s Democracy Initiative. He is a specialist on the history and culture of the Atlantic world, and his scholarship spans the Caribbean (particularly Haiti), North America, and France. 

Laurent Dubois

Articles

Haiti Reimagined: On Marlene L. Daut’s “Awakening the Ashes” and Jake Johnston’s “Aid State”