The Slaves Who Defeated Napoleon - Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian War of Independence, 1801-1804

Informationen zum Autor Philippe R. Girard is an associate professor and head of the Department of History at McNeese State University. He is the author of Clinton in Haiti: The 1994 U.S. Invasion of Haiti and Haiti: The Tumultuous History--From Pearl of the Caribbean to Broken Nation. Klappentext In this ambitious book! Girard employs the latest tools of the historian's craft! multi-archival research in particular! and applies them to the climactic yet poorly understood last years of the Haitian Revolution. Haiti lost most of its archives to neglect and theft! but a substantial number of documents survive in French! U.S.! British! and Spanish collections! both public and private. In all! this book relies on contemporary military! commercial! and administrative sources drawn from nineteen archives and research libraries on both sides of the Atlantic.

Product details

• Authors: Philippe R Girard, Philippe R. Girard
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.11.2011
• EAN: 9780817317324
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-1732-4
• No. of pages: 472
• Series: Atlantic Crossings; Atlantic Crossings
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous