David Barry (Hrsg.) Gaspar

A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean

Buch

Stimulating, incisive, insightful, sometimes revisionist, thisvolume is required reading for historians of comparative colonialism in an age ofrevolution. -- Choice(An) eminently original andintellectually exciting book. -- William and MaryQuarterlyThis volume examines several slave societies in theGreater Caribbean to illustrate the pervasive and multi-layered impact of therevolutionary age on the region. Built precariously on the exploitation of slavelabor, organized according to the doctrine of racial discrimination, the plantationcolonies were particularly vulnerable to the message of the French Revolution, whichproved all the more potent… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Geggus, David Patrick (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-253-33247-9
EAN: 9780253332479
Produktnummer: 1357247
Verlag: Indiana Univ Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
Seitenangabe: 280 S.
Masse: H24.4 cm x B16.3 cm x D3.1 cm 640 g
Gewicht: 640
Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.

Über den Autor

David Barry Gaspar, Professor of History at Duke University, is the author of Bondmen and Rebels, co-editor of More Than Chattel, and author of many articles about the African diaspora. David Patrick Geggus, Professor of History at the University of Florida, is the author of Haitian Revolutionary Studies (IU Press) and Slavery, War, and Revolution.