The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World

 

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Online sinds
25 mei 2018
EAN
9781570034169
Taal
Engels
Bindwijze
Hardcover
Aantal pagina's
256 pagina's

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The slave revolution that two hundred years ago created the state of Haiti alarmed and excited public opinion on both sides of the Atlantic. Its repercussions ranged from the world commodity markets to the imagination of poets, from the council chambers of the great powers to slave quarters in Virginia and Brazil and most points in between. Sharing attention with such tumultuous events as the French Revolution and the Napoleonic War, Haiti's fifteen-year struggle for racial equality, slave emancipation, and colonial independence challenged notions about racial hierarchy that were gaining legitimacy in an Atlantic world dominated by Europeans and the slave trade. The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World explores the multifarious influence - from economic to ideological to psychological - that a revolt on a small Caribbean island had on the continents surrounding it. Fifteen international scholars, including eminent historians David Brion Davis, Seymour Drescher, and Robin Blackburn, explicate such diverse ramifications as the spawning of slave resistance and the stimulation of slavery's expansion, the opening of economic frontiers, and the formation of black and white diasporas. They show how the Haitian Revolution embittered contemporary debates about race and abolition and inspired poetry, plays, and novels. Seeking to disentangle its effects from those of the French Revolution, they demonstrate that its impact was ambiguous, complex, and contradictory.

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Categorie
Politiek (Tip! Bekijk de top 10)
Artikelnummer
1716822
Online sinds
25 mei 2018
EAN
9781570034169

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Taal
Engels
Bindwijze
Hardcover
Aantal pagina's
256 pagina's

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Verschijningsdatum
november 2001
Afmetingen
23,5 x 15,9 x 2,5 cm