In the shadow of powers : Dantès Bellegarde in Haitian social thought / Patrick Bellegarde-Smith ; foreword by Brandon R. Byrd.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-259) and index.

The context of the cultural crisis : Haitian social policy and foreign relations -- The basis for Haitian social policy : social thought in the nineteenth century -- Milieu and moment : the career and life of Dantes Bellegarde -- Synthesis of an approach : history and culture -- Synthesis of an approach : education and commerce -- Perspectives on social conflict and culture -- The trauma of insignificance -- Haiti and her problems : four lectures.

"An intellectual biography of a major Haitian philosopher within the context of Latin American and western social thought. Dantès Bellegarde was the quasi-official ideologue of the Haitian state for half a century"--