DE DESSALINES A DUVALIER. RAZA, COLOR Y LA INDEPENDENCIA DE HAITÍ.
Santo Domingo: Sociedad Dominicana de Bibliófios, Inc (Colección de Cultura Dominicana Segunda Época, Vol. 92), 2021. First edition. Hardcover. 563p., maps, bibl., boards. New. Item #192355
ISBN: 9789945457612
The work takes a historical journey from the first president of Haiti, Jean Jacques Dessalines, who proclaimed the independence of the neighboring country and who was later proclaimed emperor with the name Jacques I, to the period of mandate of the dictator François Duvalier, who ruled from 1957 .
The book presentation ceremony was held in the Max Henríquez Ureña room of the UNPHU, with the words of its academic vice-rector, Patricia Matos, and the president of the Bibliophiles, Dennis R. Simó, and was attended by teaching authorities and directors of the cultural entity.
The journalist José Báez Guerrero was in charge of the prologue of this first edition of the book in the Spanish language, translated by Ramón Cedano, corrected by Yanet Canals and made possible thanks to the collaboration of Unphu, its Publications Commission and its rector. , Miguel Fiallo Calderon.
Price: $80.00