1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990003210770403321

Autore

Beckmann, Martin Joseph <1924- >

Titolo

Studies in the economics of transportation / by Martin Beckmann, C.B. McGuire, Christopher B. Winsten ; With an introduction by Tjalling C. Koopmans.

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven : Cowles Commission for Research in Economics by Yale University Press, 1956

Descrizione fisica

232 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

McGuire, Charles Bartlett

Winsten, Christopher B.

Locazione

SES

Collocazione

H/3.1 BEC

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910265238103321

Autore

Rainsford Marcus <active 1805.>

Titolo

An historical account of the black empire of Hayti / / Marcus Rainsford ; edited and with an Introduction by Paul Youngquist and Grégory Pierrot

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham ; ; London, : Duke University Press, 2013

ISBN

9781299311640

1299311644

9780822395560

0822395568

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (403 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

YoungquistPaul

PierrotGrégory

Disciplina

972.94/03

Soggetti

Haiti History To 1791

Haiti History Revolution, 1791-1804

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Introduction; A Note on the Text; An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti; Contents; Chapter I. A Succinct historical View of the Colonies of Hispaniola and St. Domingo, from the Discovery of Hayti, by Columbus, to the Height of their Prosperity in 1789; Chapter II. Origin of the Revolutionary Spirit of this Period in St. Domingo; Chapter III. Account of the Progress and Accomplishment of the Independence of St. Domingo

Chapter IV. State of Manners on the Independence of the Blacks in St. Domingo, with a Memoir of the Circumstances of the Author's Visit to the Island in 1799Chapter V. View of the Black Army, and of the War between the French Republic and the independent Blacks of St. Domingo; Chapter VI. On the Establishment of a Black Empire, and the probable Effects of the Colonial Revolution; Appendix: Compromising Documents Referred to in Different Parts of the Work: Together with Auxiliary Remarks; Editorial Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A new edition of the earliest English-language account of the Haitian Revolution. Originally published in 1805, the narrative played a significant role in establishing nineteenth-century world opinion of that



momentous event.