The Early Haitian State and the Question of Political Legitimacy : American and British Representations of Haiti, 1804-1824 /

The Early Haitian State and the Question of Political Legitimacy : American and British Representations of Haiti, 1804-1824 /

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This book explores the different ways in which the early Haitian state was represented in print culture in America and Britain in the early nineteenth century. This study demonstrates that American and British arguments about the most effective forms of governance and political leadership impacted h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Forde, James (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Edition:1st ed. 2020.
Series:Palgrave Studies in Political History
Subjects:
Latin America-History.
World politics.
World history.
Latin American History.
Political History.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. "The Bonaparte of the New World": American and British Reactions to the Emergence of Emperor Dessalines
  • 3. President Christophe and Commercial Legitimacy
  • 4. King Christophe and the Question of Monarchical Legitimacy
  • 5. The Death of a New World Monarch: Regicidal Imaginings in Transatlantic Republican Thought
  • 6. The Promise and the Threat of Boyer and Haitian Republicanism
  • 7. Conclusion.