Ada Ferrer

Freedom's Mirror

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Studies the reverberations of the Haitian Revolution in Cuba, where the violent entrenchment of slavery occurred while slaves in Haiti successfully overthrew the institution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 785g
• ISBN-13: 9781107029422
• ISBN-10: 1107029422
• Artikelnr.: 41611551

Autorenporträt

Ada Ferrer is Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University. She is the author of Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898, which won the 2000 Berkshire Book Prize for the best first book written by a woman in any field of history.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the Haitian Revolution and Cuban slave society
1. 'A colony worth a kingdom': Cuba's sugar revolution in the shadow of Saint-Domingue
2. 'An excess of communication': the capture of news in a slave society
3. An unlikely alliance: Cuba and the black auxiliaries
4. Revolution's disavowal: Cuba and a counterrevolution of slavery
5. 'Masters of all': echoes of Haitian independence in Cuba
6. Atlantic crucible: 1808 between Haiti and Spain
7. A black kingdom of this world: making history, imagining revolution in Havana, 1812
Epilogue: Haiti, Cuba, and history: afterlives of antislavery and revolution.