The Other French Revolution : The Radical Republic in the Caribbean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friedland, Paul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hugues, Victor, 1762-1826.

Revolutions.

Slavery--West Indies.

Slavery.

Local Subjects:

Hugues, Victor, 1762-1826.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (537 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2026.

Summary:

A new history of the Age of Revolutions, from a Caribbean perspective.The Other French Revolution uncovers the Caribbean uprising that shocked the world before vanishing from memory.This revolution initially drew the attention of every major imperial power.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction: The Revolution in the Windward Islands and Its Erasure from Modern Memory

Part I. The French Revolutionary Transatlantic

1. Time-Traveling Commissaires and Other Envoys of the French Republic

2. Emissaries from the Caribbean Colonies to the Metropole

3. The Jacobin Republic Arrives in Guadeloupe

4. Thermidor and the Second Expedition to the Windward Islands

Part II. The Revolution Spreads

5. The Revolution in Saint Lucia

6. The Revolution in Grenada

7. The Revolution in Saint Vincent

Part III. A Year "Without Race

8. The Radical Republican Revolution in the Windward Islands, March 1795-March 1796

Part IV. The Dream Ends

9. The British Armada of 1796

10. Republican Resistance and British Repression

11. The Death of the Universal Republic

Afterword: Stolen History, Imagined History, Public History: How the Present Sees the Past

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Friedland, Paul The Other French Revolution

ISBN:

9780674306745

OCLC:

1609705162