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The World of the Haitian Revolution
Geggus
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Description for The World of the Haitian Revolution
Paperback. Definitive work on one of the most consequential events in the history of Atlantic slavery Editor(s): Geggus, David Patrick; Fiering, Norman. Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 440 pages, 30 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 24. Weight in Grams: 673.
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In January 1804, the once wealthy colony of Saint-Domingue declared its independence from France and adopted the Amerindian name "Haiti." Independence was the outcome of the extraordinary uprising of the colony's slaves. Although a central event in the history of the French in the New World, the full significance of the revolution has yet to be realized. These essays deepen...
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
Series
Blacks in the Diaspora
Number of Pages
440
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253220172
SKU
V9780253220172
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Ref
99-50
About Geggus
David Patrick Geggus teaches history at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Among his books are Slavery, War and Revolution and Haitian Revolutionary Studies (IUP, 2003). Norman Fiering is author of Moral Philosophy at Seventeenth-Century Harvard: A Discipline in Transition and Jonathan Edwards's Moral Thought and Its British Context. Fiering is past director and librarian of the John Carter Brown Library.
Reviews for The World of the Haitian Revolution
"Students of Haiti's past have seen two recent additions in English to the literature about the island's famous revolution—first the magisterial Toussaint Louverture: A Biography, by Madison Smartt Bell in 2007, (CH, Jul'07, 44-6405), and now the worthy The World of the Haitian Revolution. The latter is the fruit of a 2004 conference at the John Carter Brown Library commemorating...
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