Monday, January 25, 2010

Haiti and the Dominican Republic: One Island, Two Worlds by Jared Diamond - The Globalist

Jared Diamond on Haiti

Last semester, my students and I read Jared Diamond's book Guns, Germs, and Steel,and we studied, among other things, the way in which Diamond constructs his arguments. In his next book, Collapse,Diamond examines a number of successful and failed societies around the world. In this excerpt, he contrasts the situation in deforested Haiti, with that of its neighbour, the Dominican Republic.

Haiti and the Dominican Republic: One Island, Two Worlds by Jared Diamond - The Globalist

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