Author: Earl Leslie Griggs
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520373146
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1952.
Author: Earl Leslie Griggs
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520346556
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1952.
Author: Henri Christophe (King of Haiti)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Haiti
Languages : en
Pages : 287
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Author: Henri Christophe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780758127730
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 287
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Author: Henri Christophe
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN: 9780837100913
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520931091
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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In this age of globalization, the eighteenth-century priest and abolitionist Henri Grégoire has often been called a man ahead of his time. An icon of antiracism, a hero to people from Ho Chi Minh to French Jews, Grégoire has been particularly celebrated since 1989, when the French government placed him in the Pantheon as a model of ideals of universalism and human rights. In this beautifully written biography, based on newly discovered and previously overlooked material, we gain access for the first time to the full complexity of Grégoire's intellectual and political universe as well as the compelling nature of his persona. His life offers an extraordinary vantage from which to view large issues in European and world history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and provides provocative insights into many of the prevailing tensions, ideals, and paradoxes of the twenty-first century. Focusing on Grégoire's idea of "regeneration," that people could literally be made anew, Sepinwall argues that revolutionary universalism was more complicated than it appeared. Tracing the Revolution's long-term legacy, she suggests that while it spread concepts of equality and liberation throughout the world, its ideals also helped to justify colonialism and conquest.
Author: Henri Christophe (King of Haiti)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Haiti
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Author: Paul Clammer
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
ISBN: 1787389979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 465
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How did a man born enslaved on a plantation triumph over Napoleon’s invading troops and become king of the first free black nation in the Americas? This is the forgotten, remarkable story of Henry Christophe. Christophe fought as a child soldier in the American War of Independence, before serving in the Haitian Revolution as one of Toussaint Louverture’s top generals. Following Haitian independence, Christophe crowned himself King Henry I. His attempts to build a modern black state won the support of leading British abolitionists—but his ambition helped to plunge his country into civil war. Christophe saw himself as an Enlightenment ruler, and his kingdom produced great literary works, epic fortresses and opulent palaces. He was a proud anti-imperialist and fought off French plots against him. Yet the Haitian people chafed under his authoritarian rule. Today, all that remains is Christophe’s mountaintop Citadelle, Haiti’s sole World Heritage site—a monument to a revolutionary black monarchy, in a world of empire and slavery.
Author: J. R. Oldfield
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107030765
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
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An in-depth, comparative study of transatlantic abolitionism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Author: Grevel Lindop
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100074969X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 403
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Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is considered one of the most important English prose writers of the early-19th century. This is the first part of a 21-volume set presenting De Quincey's work, also including previously unpublished material.
