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| Title: | Haitian Revolution Reader
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| Author: | Edited & Translated by David Geggus |
| ISBN: | 0872208656 : 9780872208650 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pages: | ca256 |
| Published: | Hackett Publishing - September 2009 |
| List Price: | 11.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | Not yet published |
| Subjects: | Haiti: Local history |
In addition to selections by, and about, the best-known figures of the Haitian Revolution -- including Toussaint L'Ouverture, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Moreau de St Méry -- this collection draws on a variety of previously untranslated eyewitness accounts, letters, and governmental documents to examine the causes of the Revolution and the impact it had on the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Headnotes introduce each selection, and a general introduction provides historical, cultural, and political context. A map and index are included.
"College instructors very much need a documentary collection on the Haitian Revolution such as this one. There is, for the moment, no such collection on the market, yet there is strong momentum among historians for the inclusion of the Haitian Revolution as a key event in understanding the Atlantic Age of Revolution... The selection of documents clearly reflects a deep knowledge of the available source materials... level of detail will be ideal for use in an upper division course or seminar on comparative revolutions, Latin America, Atlantic history, or slavery and abolition... will be useful to a wide range of undergraduate courses." -- Sue Peabody, Washington State University.
