The Haitians: A Decolonial History

by Jean Casimir

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469660482
• ISBN13: 9781469660486
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"