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- Description
- 1 online resource (xxix, 419 pages)
- 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
- Haitians (Online)
- Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
- Alternative Title
- Haitians (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-414) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2020022322
- OCLC
- ssj0002404047
- Author
Casimir, Jean.
- Title
The Haitians [electronic resource] : a decolonial history / Jean Casimir ; translated by Laurent Dubois ; with a foreword by Walter D. Mignolo.
- Imprint
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
- Series
Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução
Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-414) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Added Author
Dubois, Laurent, 1971-
Mignolo, Walter.