The Haitians : A Decolonial History /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Casimir, Jean (Author)
Other Authors: Mignolo, Walter (writer of foreword.), Dubois, Laurent, 1971- (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Series:Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sovereignty.
Haiti > Colonization > History.
Haiti > History.
Haiti > Politics and government.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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