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The Haitian Declaration of Independence Creation, Context, and Legacy / edited by Julia Gaffield.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Jeffersonian America.
- Jeffersonian America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Liberty--Political aspects--Haiti--History--19th century.
- Liberty.
- Proclamations--Haiti--History and criticism.
- Proclamations.
- Haiti--History--1804-1844.
- Haiti.
- Haiti--History--Revolution, 1791-1804.
- Haiti--History--Autonomy and independence movements.
- Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, 1758-1806.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Taken together, these essays offer a clearer and more thorough understanding of the intricacies and complexities of the world's second declaration of independence to create a lasting nation-state.
- Contents:
- Introduction / David Armitage and Julia Gaffield
- Part 1. Writing the Declaration
- Haiti's Declaration of Independence / David Geggus
- "Victims of our own credulity and indulgence" : the life of Louis Felix Boisrond-Tonnerre / John Garrigus
- The debate surrounding the printing of the Haitian Declaration of Independence : a review of the literature / Patrick Tardieu
- Living by metaphor in the Haitian Declaration of Independence : tigers and cognitive theory / Deborah Jenson
- Part 2. Haitian independence and the Atlantic
- Law, Atlantic revolutionary exceptionalism, and the Haitian Declaration of Independence / Malick W. Ghachem
- Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Norbert Thoret, and the violent aftermath of the Haitian Declaration of Independence / Jeremy D. Popkin
- Dessalines' plan to export the Haitian Revolution? / Philippe Girard
- Part 3. The legacy of the Haitian Declaration of Independence
- "Outrages on the laws of nations" : American merchants and diplomacy after the Haitian Declaration of Independence / Julia Gaffield
- The sovereign people of Haiti during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Jean Casimir
- Thinking Haitian independence in Haitian Vodou / Laurent Dubois
- Revolutionary commemorations : Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haitian Independence Day, 1804-1904 / Erin Zavitz
- Appendix.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813937885
- 0813937884
- OCLC:
- 930758581
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