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The Haitians : a decolonial history
- Title
- The Haitians : a decolonial history / Jean Casimir ; translated by Laurent Dubois ; with a foreword by Walter D. Mignolo.
- Author
- Casimir, Jean
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
- ©2020
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 20-6029 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xxix, 419 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "In this sweeping history, leading Haitian intellectual Jean Casimir argues that the story of Haiti should not begin with the usual image of Saint-Domingue as the richest colony of the eighteenth century. Rather, it begins with a reconstruction of how individuals from Africa, in the midst of the golden age of imperialism, created a sovereign society based on political imagination and a radical rejection of the colonial order, persisting even through the U.S. occupation in 1915"--
- Series Statement
- Latin America in translation / en traducción / em tradução
- Uniform Title
- Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Resisting the production of sufferers -- Colonial thought -- Slaves or peasants -- The pursuit of impossible segregation -- The citizen property-owner -- Public order and communal order -- The power and beauty of a sovereign people -- An independent state without a sovereign people -- The state in the nineteenth century.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-6029
- ISBN
- 9781469651545
- 1469651548
- 9781469660486
- 1469660482
- 9781469660493 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2020022322
- OCLC
- 1147879289
- Author
- Casimir, Jean, author.
- Title
- The Haitians : a decolonial history / Jean Casimir ; translated by Laurent Dubois ; with a foreword by Walter D. Mignolo.
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Latin America in translation / en traducción / em traduçãoLatin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Dubois, Laurent, 1971- translator.Mignolo, Walter, writer of foreword.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-6029