ISBN:
9781469651545
,
9781469660486
Language:
English
Pages:
xxix, 419 Seiten
Series Statement:
Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Casimir, Jean The Haitians
DDC:
972.94
Keywords:
Sovereignty
;
Haiti Politics and government
;
Haiti History
;
Haiti Colonization
;
History
;
Haiti
;
Kolonialismus
;
Sklaverei
;
Widerstand
;
Entkolonialisierung
;
Souveränität
;
Geschichte 1492-1915
Abstract:
Resisting the production of sufferers -- Colonial thought -- Slaves or peasants -- The pursuit of impossible segregation -- The citizen property-owner -- Public order and communal order -- The power and beauty of a sovereign people -- An independent state without a sovereign people -- The state in the nineteenth century.
Abstract:
"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"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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