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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789892703321

Autore

Popkin Jeremy D. <1948->

Titolo

A concise history of the Haitian revolution [[electronic resource] /] / Jeremy D. Popkin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012

ISBN

1-4443-4751-9

1-283-40768-X

9786613407689

1-4443-4753-5

1-4443-4750-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Collana

Viewpoints = Puntos de vista

Classificazione

259.3

972.94/04

Disciplina

972.94/04

Soggetti

Haiti History Revolution, 1791-1804

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution; Contents; Illustrations; Series Editor's Preface; Introduction; 1: A Colonial Society in a Revolutionary Era; 2: The Uprisings, 1791-1793; 3: Republican Emancipation in Saint-Domingue, 1793-1798; 4: Toussaint Louverture in Power, 1798-1801; 5: The Struggle for Independence, 1802-1806; 6: Consolidating Independence in a Hostile World; Afterword: The Earthquake Crisis of 2010 and the Haitian Revolution; Recent Scholarship on the Haitian Revolution; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers students a concise and clearly written overview of the events of the Haitian Revolution, from the slave uprising in the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1791 to the declaration of Haiti's independence in 1804. Draws on the latest scholarship in the field as well as the author's original researchOffers a valuable resource for those studying independence movements in Latin America, the history of the Atlantic World, the history of the African diaspora, and the age of the American and French revolutionsWritten by an expert on both the French and Hai