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The Haitians : A Decolonial History /
"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 th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (452 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469660509 |