Publication

2015 - The University of North Carolina Press, North Carolina

Language

English

Word Count

63,500 words, Guess

Page Count

254 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781469625621
  • ISBN-139781469625638
  • ISBN-101469625628
  • ISBN-101469625636
  • Library of Congress Control Number2015018761
and 4 more
  • OCLC Control Number906234531
  • Better World Books9781469625621
  • Better World Books9781469625638
  • Open LibraryOL26882680M

Classifications

  • DDC972.94/04
  • LCCF1922 .G34 2015
  • LCCF1922.G34 2015

Description

"On January 1, 1804, Haiti shocked the world by declaring independence. Historians have long portrayed Haiti's postrevolutionary period as one during which the international community rejected Haiti's Declaration of Independence and adopted a policy of isolation designed to contain the impact of the world's only successful slave revolution. Julia Gaffield, however, anchors a fresh vision of Haiti's first tentative years of independence to its relationships with other nations and empires and reveals the surprising limits of the country's supposed isolation"--

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