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  • Haitian Revolutionary Studies

    by David Patrick Geggus ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    The Haitian Revolution of 1789–1803 transformed the Caribbean's wealthiest colony into the first independent state in Latin America, encompassed the largest slave uprising in the Americas, and inflicted a humiliating defeat on three colonial powers. In Haitian Revolutionary Studies, David Patrick Geggus sheds new light on this tremendous upheaval by marshaling an unprecedented range of evidence ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World

    Edited by David P. Geggus ...
    Series series Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World
    The effect of Saint Domingue's decolonization on the wider Atlantic worldThe slave revolution that two hundred years ago created the state of Haiti alarmed and excited public opinion on both sides of the Atlantic. Its repercussions ranged from the world commodity markets to the imagination of poets, from the council chambers of the great powers to slave quarters in Virginia and Brazil and most ... Read more

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  • Haitian Revolutionary Studies

    by David Patrick Geggus ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    The Haitian Revolution of 1789–1803 transformed the Caribbean's wealthiest colony into the first independent state in Latin America, encompassed the largest slave uprising in the Americas, and inflicted a humiliating defeat on three colonial powers. In Haitian Revolutionary Studies, David Patrick Geggus sheds new light on this tremendous upheaval by marshaling an unprecedented range of evidence ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Black Jacobins

    Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

    by C.L.R. James ...
    **A powerful and impassioned historical account of the largest successful revolt by enslaved people in history: the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1803“One of the seminal texts about the history of slavery and abolition.... Provocative and empowering.” —The New York Times Book Review**The Black Jacobins, by Trinidadian historian C. L. R. James, was the first major analysis of the uprising that began ... Read more

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  • Black Spartacus

    The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

    by Sudhir Hazareesingh ...
    Winner of the 2021 Wolfson History Prize" Black Spartacus is a tour de force: by far the most complete, authoritative and persuasive biography of Toussaint that we are likely to have for a long time . . . An extraordinarily gripping read." —David A. Bell, The GuardianA new interpretation of the life of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint LouvertureAmong the defining figures of the Age of ... Read more

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  • The Expanding Blaze

    How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848

    by Jonathan Israel ...
    A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the AmericasThe Expanding Blaze is a sweeping history of how the American Revolution inspired revolutions throughout Europe and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Jonathan Israel, one of the world’s leading historians of the Enlightenment, shows how the radical ... Read more

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  • Toussaint Louverture

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    At the end of the 1700s, French Saint Domingue was the richest and most brutal colony in the Western Hemisphere. A mere twelve years later, however, Haitian rebels had defeated the Spanish, British, and French and declared independence after the first—and only—successful slave revolt in history. Much of the success of the revolution must be credited to one man, Toussaint Louverture, a figure about ... Read more

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  • The First and Last King of Haiti

    The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe

    by Marlene L. Daut ...
    FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE • WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY • The essential biography of the controversial rebel, traitor, and only king of Haiti. Henry Christophe is one of the most richly complex figures in the history of the Americas, and was, in his time, popular and famous the world over: in The First and Last King of Haiti, a brilliant, award-winning ... Read more

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  • Men on Horseback

    The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution

    by David A. Bell ...
    An immersive examination of why the age of democratic revolutions was also a time of hero worship and strongmen."In his lucid and bracing history, Bell helps us better understand how [a] charismatic grifter came to occupy the most powerful office in the world . . . Bell's description of our predicament makes for essential reading." — Los Angeles Review of BooksIn Men on Horseback, the Princeton ... Read more

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  • The Age of Revolutions

    And the Generations Who Made It

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    A panoramic, "persuasive and inspiring" (New Yorker) new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, from North America and Europe to Haiti and Spanish America, showing how progress and reaction went hand in handThe revolutions that raged across Europe and the Americas over seven decades, from 1760 to 1825, created the modern world. Revolutionaries shattered empires, toppled social ... Read more

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  • Maroon Societies

    Rebel Slave Communities in the America

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    Maroon Societies is a systematic study of the communities formed by escaped slaves in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States. These societies ranged from small bands that survived less than a year to powerful states encompassing thousands of members and surviving for generations and even centuries. The volume includes eyewitness accounts written by escaped slaves and their pursuers, ... Read more

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