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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790995803321

Autore

Toussaint Louverture <1743-1803, >

Titolo

The memoir of general Toussaint Louverture / / translated and edited by Philippe Girard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, [New York] : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-19-939352-4

0-19-025458-0

0-19-993723-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GirardPhilippe

Disciplina

972.94/03092

Soggetti

Generals - Haiti

Revolutionaries - Haiti

Haiti History Revolution, 1791-1804

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; The Memoir of General Toussaint Louverture; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction; PREFACE TO THE TRANSCRIPT AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION; Map of Place Names Mentioned in the Memoir; Original Transcript and English Translation; Memoire du General Toussaint Louverture: Transcript; Memoir of General Toussaint Louverture: English Translation; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Here is an annotated, scholarly, multilingual edition of the only lengthy text personally written by Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture: the memoirs he wrote shortly before his death in the French prison of Fort de Joux. The translation is based on an original copy in Louverture's hand never before published. Historian Philippe Girard begins with an introductory essay that retraces Louverture's career as a slave, rebel, and governor. Girard provides a detailed narrative of the last year of Louverture's life, and analyzes the significance of the memoirs and letters from a historical and