Entrepot of Revolutions - Saint Domingue, Commercial Sovereignty, French American Alliance

Entrepôt of Revolutions centers imperial trade as a driving force in the revolutionary Atlantic, arguing that commercial factors preceded and conditioned political change. At the crux of these transformations was the "entrepôt," Saint-Domingue whose economy grew dramatically as a direct consequence of the American Revolution and the French-American alliance.

Sommario

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction


• Chapter 1 The Greatest Revolution in Commerce and Politics, 1776-1784


• Chapter 2 An Inexhaustible Mine of Wealth, 1784-1788


• Chapter 3 The Whole and the Parts, 1789-1790


• Chapter 4 An Empire of Liberty? 1790-1793


• Chapter 5 The Best of a Bad Bargain, 1789-1793


• Chapter 6 The Atlantic Politics of Commercial Republicanism, 1793-1794


• Chapter 7 The Unfree Trade of an Abolitionist Colony, 1793-1796


• Chapter 8 Politicizing Merchant Identities, 1793-1798


• Chapter 9 Trade and War: A Fiscal-Military State in the French Empire, 1797-1801


• Epilogue The Collapse of Commercial Republicanism and the Enduring Power of Imperial Trade


• Notes


• Index

Info autore

Manuel Covo is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Riassunto

Entrepôt of Revolutions centers imperial trade as a driving force in the revolutionary Atlantic, arguing that commercial factors preceded and conditioned political change. At the crux of these transformations was the "entrepôt," Saint-Domingue whose economy grew dramatically as a direct consequence of the American Revolution and the French-American alliance.

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Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Manuel Covo, Manuel (Assistant Professor of History Covo
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9780197626382
• ISBN: 978-0-19-762638-2
• Pagine: 320
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia; USA, France, European History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, HISTORY / Europe / France, HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Imperialism, Economic history, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, United States of America, USA, Specific wars and campaigns, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare), American War of Independence, Later 18th century c 1750 to c 1799