Toussaint Louverture - A Black Jacobin in the Age of Revolutions

Biography of the anti-imperialist fighter and slave liberator Toussaint Louverture, explored through the prism of his radical politics

About the author

Charles Forsdick is James Barrow Professor of French, University of Liverpool. He is co-author of Toussaint Louverture (Pluto, 2017), author of Victor Segalen and the Aesthetics of Diversity and Travel in Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Cultures (Oxford University Press 2005) and co-editor of The Black Jacobins Reader (Duke University Press, 2017).
Christian Hogsbjerg is a historian who works for the Centre for African Studies at the University of Leeds. He is author of C.L.R. James in Imperial Britain (Duke University Press, 2014), co-author of Toussaint Louverture (Pluto, 2017) and editor of Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History, James's 1934 play about the Haitian Revolution, and World Revolution 1917-1936, James's 1937 history of the Communist International and co-editor of The Black Jacobins Reader (Duke University Press, 2017).

Summary

Biography of the anti-imperialist fighter and slave liberator Toussaint Louverture, explored through the prism of his radical politics

Product details

• Authors: Charles Forsdick, Charles Hogsbjerg Forsdick, Forsdick Charles, Christian Hogsbjerg, Hogsbjerg Christian
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.05.2017
• EAN: 9780745335155
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-3515-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Revolutionary Lives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Haiti, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, C 1700 To C 1800, Slavery and abolition of slavery, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Haiti