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Record Nr.

UNINA9910427040103321

Autore

Forde James

Titolo

The Early Haitian State and the Question of Political Legitimacy : American and British Representations of Haiti, 1804-1824 / / by James Forde

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9783030526085

3030526089

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 218 p. 1 illus. in color.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Political History, , 2946-5184

Disciplina

972.9404

Soggetti

Latin America - History

World politics

World history

Latin American History

Political History

World History, Global and Transnational History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. "The Bonaparte of the New World": American and British Reactions to the Emergence of Emperor Dessalines -- 3. President Christophe and Commercial Legitimacy -- 4. King Christophe and the Question of Monarchical Legitimacy -- 5. The Death of a New World Monarch: Regicidal Imaginings in Transatlantic Republican Thought -- 6. The Promise and the Threat of Boyer and Haitian Republicanism -- 7. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the different ways in which the early Haitian state was represented in print culture in America and Britain in the early nineteenth century. This study demonstrates that American and British arguments about the most effective forms of governance and political leadership impacted how Haiti's early leaders were presented to transatlantic audiences. From the end of the Haitian Revolution and the moment that Haitian independence was declared in 1804, conservatives and radical thinkers on both sides of the Atlantic used Haiti and its



early leaders as central frames of references in discussions of political legitimacy. Against the backdrop of a vibrant and volatile age of revolutions, the different forms of governance adopted by Jean Jacques Dessalines, Henry Christophe and Jean Pierre Boyer were used by writers, playwrights and caricaturists to either support or call into question the legitimacy of America's and Britain's own forms of government. .