The Haitians: A Decolonial History

Author/Contributor(s):	Casimir, Jean
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	10/19/2020
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"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"--