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  • The First and Last King of Haiti

    The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe

    by Marlene L. Daut ...
    FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE • WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY • The essential biography of the controversial rebel, traitor, and only king of Haiti. Henry Christophe is one of the most richly complex figures in the history of the Americas, and was, in his time, popular and famous the world over: in The First and Last King of Haiti, a brilliant, award-winning ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The First and Last King of Haiti

    The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe

    by Marlene L. Daut ...
    Narrated by Don Elivert ...

    Unabridged

    29 hours 19 min

    FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE • WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY • The essential biography of the controversial rebel, traitor, and only king of Haiti. Henry Christophe is one of the most richly complex figures in the history of the Americas, and was, in his time, popular and famous the world over: in The First and Last King of Haiti, a brilliant, award-winning ... Read more

    $35.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Awakening the Ashes

    An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution

    by Marlene L. Daut ...
    The Haitian Revolution was a powerful blow against colonialism and slavery, and as its thinkers and fighters blazed the path to universal freedom, they forced anticolonial, antislavery, and antiracist ideals into modern political grammar. The first state in the Americas to permanently abolish slavery, outlaw color prejudice, and forbid colonialism, Haitians established their nation in a hostile ... Read more

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  • Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism

    by Marlene L. Daut ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Focusing on the influential life and works of the Haitian political writer and statesman, Baron de Vastey (1781-1820), in this book Marlene L. Daut examines the legacy of Vastey’s extensive writings as a form of what she calls black Atlantic humanism, a discourse devoted to attacking the enlightenment foundations of colonialism. Daut argues that Vastey, the most important secretary of Haiti’s King ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • A History of Haitian Literature

    Edited by Marlene L. Daut, Kaiama L. Glover ...
    From nineteenth-century antislavery pamphleteering to accounts of ecological catastrophe in twenty-first-century fiction, Haitian literature has resounded across the globe since the nation's revolutionaries declared independence in 1804. Starting with pre-revolutionary writing, including the emergence of Haitian Creole letters, extending to the long, largely francophone nineteenth century, and ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Haitian Revolutionary Fictions

    An Anthology

    Edited by Grégory Pierrot, Marion C. Rohrleitner, Professor Marlene L. Daut, Ph.D ...
    Series series New World Studies
    The Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) was the first antislavery and anticolonial uprising led by New World Africans to result in the creation of an independent and slavery-free nation state. The momentousness of this thirteen-year-long war generated thousands of pages of writing. This anthology brings together for the first time a transnational and multilingual selection of literature about the ... Read more

    $43.69 USD

  • The American Revolution at 250

    Twenty-Four Historians Reflect on the Founding

    by Brendan McConville, Annette Gordon-Reed, Eliga Gould, Christa Dierksheide, Professor Nicholas Guyatt, PhD, Professor Robert G. Parkinson, Professor Marlene L. Daut, Ph.D, Allison Bigelow, Peter S. Onuf, T. H. Breen, Professor Rosemarie Zagarri, PhD, John A. Ragosta, Lindsay M. Chervinsky, Professor Woody Holton, Professor Lauren Duval, Ricardo Herrera, Joanne B. Freeman, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Andrew M. Davenport, Patrick Griffin, Katherine Carté, Dr. Michael A. McDonnell, PhD, Teresa R Pollak ...
    Series series The Revolutionary Age
    The preeminent historians of the founding era speak their mind on the anniversary of the United States’ birthIn these powerful and personal essays, some of the most celebrated historians of the American Revolutionary era reflect on the meaning of 1776 to the nation in 2026, offering fresh insights and food for thought on every page. They tackle the most pressing topics that Americans debated in ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

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  • Free and French in the Caribbean

    Toussaint Louverture, Aimé Césaire, and Narratives of Loyal Opposition

    by John Patrick Walsh ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    "All the ingredients to become the next important book in the field of postcolonial studies with the emphasis on French Caribbean culture and literature."—Daniel Desormeaux, University of ChicagoIn Free and French in the Caribbean, John Patrick Walsh studies the writings of Toussaint Louverture and Aimé Césaire to examine how they conceived of and narrated two defining events in the ... Read more

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  • The Spirits and the Law

    Vodou and Power in Haiti

    by Kate Ramsey ...
    Vodou has often served as a scapegoat for Haiti’s problems, from political upheavals to natural disasters. This tradition of scapegoating stretches back to the nation’s founding and forms part of a contest over the legitimacy of the religion, both beyond and within Haiti’s borders. The Spirits and the Law examines that vexed history, asking why, from 1835 to 1987, Haiti banned many popular ritual ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Haitian Revolution: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Marie-Jeanne Rossignol ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Silencing the Past

    Power and the Production of History

    by Michel-Rolph Trouillot ...
    **20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION: Discover the pioneering classic of history, anthropology, and post-colonial studies—now with a new foreword by renowned scholar Hazel Carby.Part of the HBO docuseries Exterminate All the Brutes, written and directed by Raoul Peck**Placing the West’s failure to acknowledge the Haitian Revolution—the most successful slave revolt in history—alongside denials of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Haiti: The Aftershocks of History

    by Laurent Dubois ...
    A New York Times Notable Book of the YearA passionate and insightful account by a leading historian of Haiti that traces the sources of the country's devastating present back to its turbulent and traumatic history.Even before the devastating 2010 earthquake, Haiti was known as a benighted place of poverty and corruption, blamed by many for its own wretchedness. But as acclaimed historian Laurent ... Read more

    $12.99 USD