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In an ethnography that challenges standard approaches to understanding the poor and disempowered, Jennie M. Smith's descriptions of peasant activity change what constitutes a democratic society. Through their civil institutions and artistic expression, Haitian peasants, widely known as some of the world's most impoverished, politically disempowered, and illiterate citizens, debate the meanings of development, democracy, and the public good.

Smith offers a historically grounded overview of how the Haitian state and certain foreign powers have sought to develop rural Haiti and relates how...

In an ethnography that challenges standard approaches to understanding the poor and disempowered, Jennie M. Smith's descriptions of peasant activity change what constitutes a democratic society. Through their civil institutions and artistic expression, Haitian peasants, widely known as some of the world's most impoverished, politically disempowered, and illiterate citizens, debate the meanings of development, democracy, and the public good.

Smith offers a historically grounded overview of how the Haitian state and certain foreign powers have sought to develop rural Haiti and relates how...

Jennie Paul is the only daughter of Baseball Hall of Fame nominee, and former New York Yankees owner and President, Gabe Paul. An experienced sports reporter in her own right, Jennie is a keen observer whose unique view, combined with never-before seen excerpts from her father's diaries, gives a new perspective on the tumultuous world of 1970s Yankees baseball. Her struggle to find her place in that world - and in her father's life - played out on the field known as "The Bronx Zoo."The Yankee Princess is for every father who wants to be closer to his daughter, and for every daughter who...

In the poetic style of Lucy Maud Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables), PEI-born Jennie Smith's verse expresses her heartfelt reflections on God and family, the wonders of nature, and the sacrifices of the RCAF during WWII.