Description |
1 online resource (x, 329 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Preface: Baron de Vastey and Post/Revolutionary Haiti -- Jean Louis Vastey (1781-1820): A biographical sketch -- Introduction -- (1820) Death of a scribe -- (1814): The colonial system restored -- (1814-2014): Reading the Protean text -- The colonial system unveiled -- Supplementary Essays -- Monstrous testimony: Baron de Vastey and the politics of Black memory / Marlene Daul -- Abolition, sentiment, and the problem of agency in Le système colonial dévoilé / Doris Garraway -- Memories of development: Le système colonial dévoilé and the performance of literacy / Chris Bongie -- Afterword: Vastey and the system of colonial violence / Nick Nesbitt |
Summary |
The first translation into English of 'Le Système colonial dévoilé', the first systematic critique of colonialism ever written from the perspective of a colonized subject |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-319) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Vastey, Pompée-Valentin, baron de, 1781-1820?
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SUBJECT |
Vastey, Pompée-Valentin, baron de, 1781-1820? fast |
Subject |
Slavery -- Haiti -- History
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Colonies.
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colonies.
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HISTORY -- Caribbean & West Indies -- General.
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Colonies
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Slavery
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Kolonialismus
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Sklaverei
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SUBJECT |
Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85058354
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Subject |
Haiti
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Haiti
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Bongie, Chris, editor, translator.
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LC no. |
2014497820 |
ISBN |
9781781385937 |
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1781385939 |
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9781781387306 |
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1781387303 |
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