- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: University of South Carolina Press; illustrated edition edition (Nov 1 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1570034168
- ISBN-13: 978-1570034169
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.1 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 567 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,331,034 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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. Seeking to disentangle the effects of the Haitian Revolutionfrom those of the French Revolution, they demonstrate that its impact was ambiguous, complex, and contradictory.
About the Author
DAVID P. GEGGUS is a professor of history at the University of Florida in Gainesville and a former Guggenheim and National Humanities Center fellow. He has published extensively on the history of slavery and the Caribbean, with a particular focus on the Haitian Revolution. He is the author of Slavery, War and Revolution: The British Occupation of Saint Domingue, 1793–1798 and an editor of A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean. Geggus lives in Gainesville.
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ON 2 JANUARY 1893 FREDERICK DOUGLASS delivered a speech dedicating the Haitian pavilion at the Chicago World's Fair. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
ON 2 JANUARY 1893 FREDERICK DOUGLASS delivered a speech dedicating the Haitian pavilion at the Chicago World's Fair. Read the first page
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Like most of the recent work of David Geggus, this book provides a good frame work and introduction for a much-needed academic study of the Haitian Revolution and it's world-wide impact.
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This review is from: The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (Hardcover)
This is a great book about the Haitian Revolution it is different essay about this revolution impact on other nations in the Atlantic World. It not only gives various historians thoughts and ideas but a more rounder view of what this revolution really did for the atlantic world.
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A Good Starting Point,
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This review is from: The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (Hardcover)
Like most of the recent work of David Geggus, this book provides a good frame work and introduction for a much-needed academic study of the Haitian Revolution and it's world-wide impact.
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Great Book,
By Victoria - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (Hardcover)
This is a great book about the Haitian Revolution it is different essay about this revolution impact on other nations in the Atlantic World. It not only gives various historians thoughts and ideas but a more rounder view of what this revolution really did for the atlantic world.
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