El estado debil: Haiti y la Republica Dominicana.

Andre Corten's El estado debil: Haiti y la Republica Dominicana, a revised and updated version of L'etat faible (Montreal: Editions du CIDIHCA, 1989), is an uneven book, for at least two reasons. In the first place, it is composed of chapters, originally written for separate purposes, presented in book format. Thus, the chapters on coffee, tobacco, migration from Haiti to the Dominican Republic and the international anti-slavery campaign, designed to improve the conditions of this flow of people, can easily be read as a series of articles which function well on their own. Their relation with the remainder, however, which constitutes the core of the book, is somewhat tenuous. …