Popkin A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-4751-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista

This book offers students a concise and clearly written overview ofthe events of the Haitian Revolution, from the slave uprising inthe French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1791 to the declaration ofHaiti's independence in 1804.
* Draws on the latest scholarship in the field as well as theauthor's original research
* Offers a valuable resource for those studying independencemovements in Latin America, the history of the Atlantic World, thehistory of the African diaspora, and the age of the American andFrench revolutions
* Written by an expert on both the French and Haitian revolutionsto offer a balanced view
* Presents a chronological, yet thematic, account of the complexhistorical contexts that produced and shaped the HaitianRevolution

Autoren/Hrsg.

Popkin, Jeremy D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations vi
Series Editor's Preface vii
Introduction 1
1 A Colonial Society in a Revolutionary Era 10
2 The Uprisings, 1791-1793 35
3 Republican Emancipation in Saint-Domingue, 1793-179862
4 Toussaint Louverture in Power, 1798-1801 90
5 The Struggle for Independence, 1802-1806 114
6 Consolidating Independence in a Hostile World 141
Afterword: The Earthquake Crisis of 2010 and the HaitianRevolution 167
Recent Scholarship on the Haitian Revolution 171
Notes 178
Index 191

Über Autor(innen)

Jeremy D. Popkin is T. Marshall Hahn Jr. Professor of History at the University of Kentucky, and is the author of You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery (2010) and Facing Racial Revolution: Eyewitness Accounts of the Haitian Uprising (2008).