The Haitians a decolonial history / Jean Casimir ; translated by Laurent Dubois ; with a foreword by Walter D. Mignolo.

By:

Casimir, Jean [Author]

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Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781469660509

Subject(s):

Sovereignty

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

F1921 .H358 2020

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Contents:

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.

Subject: "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 the U.S. occupation in 1915"--

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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.

"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 the U.S. occupation in 1915"--

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