The Haitians: a decolonial history

"In this sweeping history, leading Haitian intellectual Jean Casimir argues that the story of Haiti should not begin with the usual image of Saint-Domingue as the richest colony of the eighteenth century. Rather, it begins with a reconstruction of how individuals from Africa, in the midst of th...

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1. Verfasser: Casimir, Jean (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press 2020
Schriftenreihe:Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução
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Online-Zugang:DE-188
Zusammenfassung:"In this sweeping history, leading Haitian intellectual Jean Casimir argues that the story of Haiti should not begin with the usual image of Saint-Domingue as the richest colony of the eighteenth century. Rather, it begins with a reconstruction of how individuals from Africa, in the midst of the golden age of imperialism, created a sovereign society based on political imagination and a radical rejection of the colonial order, persisting even through the U.S. occupation in 1915"--
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xxxii, 420 Seiten)
ISBN:9781469660509

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