Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution

Informationen zum Autor Malick W. Ghachem is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Maine School of Law. A historian and lawyer, he has held a Chateaubriand Fellowship from the French government; a senior fellowship at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University; a Geballe Prize Dissertation Fellowship at the Stanford Humanities Center; and the Charles Hamilton Houston Fellowship at Harvard Law School. His articles and reviews have appeared in Law and History Review, The William and Mary Quarterly, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, The Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities and the UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law. Klappentext A provocative history of Haiti up to 1804, when Haitians became the first formerly enslaved people to overthrow a colonial slaveholding power. Zusammenfassung This is an innovative account of the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue (Haiti) from the late seventeenth century to 1804! when Haitians became the first formerly enslaved people to overthrow a colonial slaveholding power. The result is a pathbreaking interpretation of the relationship between colonial slavery and the Haitian Revolution. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Domestic enemies; 2. Manumission was the means; 3. Reconciling humanity and public policy; 4. Stop the course of these cruelties; 5. Less than just a despot?; 6. To restore order and tranquility.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Malick W. Ghachem, Malick W. (University of Maine) Ghachem, Ghachem Malick W.
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 05.03.2012
• EAN: 9780521836807
• ISBN: 978-0-521-83680-7
• Pagine: 364
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Diritto > Diritto internazionale, diritto degli stranieri; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; Haiti, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, 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, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Haiti