Haitians

This is a thought-provoking analysis of the Haitian Revolution, critically analyzing Haiti around this period through a sociological lens. This book has a high barrier to entry - if you haven't already read a few books about Haitian history you will be lost. The analysis here, while compelling, doesn't break much new ground compared to other analyses of slavery and colonialism across the Americas, although if you haven't read works in that vein this is certainly a good entry point. More importantly Casimir doesn't show his work for many of his arguments - there are a ton of conclusions that are stated as fact with literally no backing beyond some anecdotal evidence. That doesn't mean these conclusions are false - I actually agree with many of them - but the lack of quantitative and qualitative grounding here severely limits the strength of these arguments. If you're interested in these topics and are already well versed in Haitian history this is still a good book to pick up, but otherwise you're better off looking elsewhere.