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History · Political economy · Liberty
The Plundered
Republic.
Five centuries of Haitian history.
A searching examination of power, plunder,
and the promise of liberty.
By Jean S. Jerome · RN-BSN, RPhT
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17 chaptersA five-century perspective
117 pagesPreface, introduction & references
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$19.99 USDOne purchase. Your copy.
The question at the heart of the book
What happens when power stands above the individual?
Haiti’s history is often told through revolution, disaster, and crisis. Jean S. Jerome asks readers to look closely at another thread: the institutions that shape who holds power, who owns property, and who bears the cost.
The Plundered Republic: Haiti, Legal Plunder, and the Anatomy of the Criminal State presents his argument through history and political economy, from Taíno Ayiti to the present.
Haitian historyPolitical economyIndividual liberty
Origins & revolutionTaíno Ayiti, Saint-Domingue, and the struggle for independence.
Independence & debtThe indemnity of 1825 and the institutions of the new republic.
Occupation & ruleThe American occupation and the Duvalier dictatorships.
Aid & the presentThe earthquake, NGOs, PetroCaribe, and the crisis of the state.
Inside the book
One history.
Five critical lenses.
Seventeen chapters connect the historical narrative with Jean’s interpretation of institutions, power, and liberty.
Get both reading formatsA work of historical interpretation and political argument, with a bibliography for further reading.
The limits of central planning
Mises and Hayek provide a lens for examining top-down control, knowledge, and economic coordination.
The individual and the collective
Ayn Rand’s ideas inform the book’s critique of political claims made in the name of the collective.
The anatomy of the criminal state
The author applies a criminological lens to ruling elites and the institutions that sustain them.
The wealth never created
The closing argument considers lost opportunity, property rights, and the conditions for a freer future.
The freest people in the hemisphere’s history deserve, at last, the freest institutions.Jean S. Jerome / The Plundered Republic
Who it’s for
For readers who want
to look beneath
the headlines.
- Readers interested in Haiti’s history and political economy.
- Members of the Haitian diaspora exploring institutions, identity, and possibility.
- Independent thinkers interested in liberty, property rights, and the limits of state power.
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The book presents Jean S. Jerome’s interpretation of Haitian history through classical-liberal ideas, political economy, and a critique of institutionalized plunder.
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