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  • The Colony and the Company

    Haiti after the Mississippi Bubble

    de Malick W. Ghachem ...
    A new account of how Haiti under French colonial rule became a violent sugar plantation stateIn the early eighteenth century, France turned to its New World colonies to help rescue the monarchy from the wartime debts of Louis XIV. This short-lived scheme ended in the first global stock market crash, known as the Mississippi Bubble. Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) was indelibly marked by the crisis, ... Leer más

    $25.19 USD

  • The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution

    de Malick W. Ghachem ...
    The Haitian Revolution (1789–1804) was an epochal event that galvanized slaves and terrified planters throughout the Atlantic world. Rather than view this tumultuous period solely as a radical rupture with slavery, Malick W. Ghachem's innovative study shows that emancipation in Haiti was also a long-term product of its colonial legal history. Ghachem takes us deep into this volatile colonial past, ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

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  • Black Spartacus

    The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

    de Sudhir Hazareesingh ...
    Winner of the 2021 Wolfson History Prize" Black Spartacus is a tour de force: by far the most complete, authoritative and persuasive biography of Toussaint that we are likely to have for a long time . . . An extraordinarily gripping read." —David A. Bell, The GuardianA new interpretation of the life of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint LouvertureAmong the defining figures of the Age of ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD

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  • Slaves for Peanuts

    A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History

    de Jori Lewis ...
    Finalist, James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference, History, and ScholarshipA stunning work of popular history—the story of how a crop transformed the history of slaveryAmericans consume over 1.5 billion pounds of peanut products every year. But few of us know the peanut’s tumultuous history, or its intimate connection to slavery and freedom.Lyrical and powerful, Slaves for Peanuts deftly ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • Men on Horseback

    The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution

    de David A. Bell ...
    An immersive examination of why the age of democratic revolutions was also a time of hero worship and strongmen."In his lucid and bracing history, Bell helps us better understand how [a] charismatic grifter came to occupy the most powerful office in the world . . . Bell's description of our predicament makes for essential reading." — Los Angeles Review of BooksIn Men on Horseback, the Princeton ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD

  • The Age of Revolutions

    And the Generations Who Made It

    de Nathan Perl-Rosenthal ...
    A panoramic, "persuasive and inspiring" (New Yorker) new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, from North America and Europe to Haiti and Spanish America, showing how progress and reaction went hand in handThe revolutions that raged across Europe and the Americas over seven decades, from 1760 to 1825, created the modern world. Revolutionaries shattered empires, toppled social ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

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  • Freedom Papers

    An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation

    de Rebecca J. Scott, Jean M Hébrard ...
    This saga opens with the enslavement of a woman from Senegambia, and then traces her family’s quest, across five generations, for lives of dignity and equality. The story of Rosalie and her descendants unfolds against the background of three great antiracist struggles: the Haitian Revolution, the French Revolution of 1848, and the U.S. Civil War. ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • The French Revolution in Global Perspective

    Edición de Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, William Max Nelson ...
    The French Revolution in Global Perspective illuminates the dense connections among the cultural, social, and economic aspects of the French Revolution, revealing how new political forms—at once democratic and imperial, anticolonial and centralizing—were generated in and through continual transnational exchanges and dialogues.Believe iSituating the French Revolution in the context of early modern ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Revolutions in the Atlantic World, New Edition

    A Comparative History

    de Wim Klooster ...
    A new overview of the contentious period that witnessed revolutions around the Atlantic between 160 and 1830.Within just a half century, the American, French, Haitian, and Spanish American Revolutions transformed the Atlantic world. This book analyzes these events through a comparative lens, offering insights into the forces behind the many conflicts in the Atlantic world in the late eighteenth ... Leer más

    $22.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Revolution to Come

    A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin

    de Dan Edelstein ...
    How an event once considered the greatest of all political dangers came to be seen as a solution to all social problemsPolitical thinkers from Plato to John Adams saw revolutions as a grave threat to society and advocated for a constitution that prevented them by balancing social interests and forms of government. The Revolution to Come traces how evolving conceptions of history ushered in a faith ... Leer más

    $25.19 USD

  • Bonds of Alliance

    Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France

    de Brett Rushforth ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French colonists and their Native allies participated in a slave trade that spanned half of North America, carrying thousands of Native Americans into bondage in the Great Lakes, Canada, and the Caribbean. In Bonds of Alliance, Brett Rushforth reveals the dynamics of this system from its origins to the end of French colonial rule. Balancing a vast ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Avengers of the New World

    The Story of the Haitian Revolution

    de Laurent Dubois ...
    The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Within a few years, the slave insurgents forced the French administrators of the colony to emancipate them, a decision ratified by revolutionary Paris in 1794. ... Leer más

    $25.49 USD

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