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 the gold...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xxiv, 419 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469651545 1469651548 9781469660486 1469660482 |