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Toussaint's clause : the founding fathers and the Haitian revolution /
In its formative years, America, birthplace of a revolution, wrestled with a volatile dilemma. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and many other founding fathers clashed. What was to be the new republic's strategy toward a revolution roiling just off its shores? From 1790 to 1810...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
©2005.
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| Colección: | Adst-Dacor Diplomats and Diplomacy Book.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In its formative years, America, birthplace of a revolution, wrestled with a volatile dilemma. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and many other founding fathers clashed. What was to be the new republic's strategy toward a revolution roiling just off its shores? From 1790 to 1810, the disagreement reverberated far beyond Caribbean waters and American coastal ports. War between France and Britain, the great powers of the time, raged on the seas and in Europe. America watched aghast as its trading partner Haiti, a rich hothouse of sugar plantations and French colonial profit, expl. |
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| Notas: | "An ADST-DACOR diplomats and diplomacy book." |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 321 pages) : map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-315) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781604736977 1604736976 1283434644 9781283434645 9786613434647 6613434647 |