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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Casimir, Jean (Autor)
Otros Autores: Dubois, Laurent, 1971- (Traductor), Mignolo, Walter (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Colección:Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
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"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (Online resource (xxix, 419 pages))
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469660509
1469660504
9781469660493
1469660490