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This bright era of happy revolutions : French Consul Michel-Ange-Bernard Mangourit and international republicanism in Charleston, 1792 - 1794 / Robert J. Alderson, Jr.

Columbia, SC : Univ. of South Carolina Press, 2008

XIII, 273 S.

Context, background, and connections -- Genet -- Mangourit -- Intrigue in the holy city -- "Opinion or dominion" : South Carolina divided -- Slave revolt in Charleston -- French privateers -- Exporting revolution -- "The most pure democracy" -- Denouement : "all the pygmies of the Gironde" -- Appendix A : founding members of the Republican Society of South Carolina -- Appendix B : runaway slaves, September 1792-March 1794

Literaturverz. S. [245] - 262

978-1-57003-745-0 ; 1-57003-745-0

 

South Carolina  Politik  Französische Revolution  Republikanismus  Geschichte 1792-1794