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Author Forde, James

Title The early Haitian state and the question of political legitimacy : American and British representations of Haiti, 1804-1824 / James Forde
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (225 pages)
Series Palgrave Studies in Political History
Palgrave studies in political history.
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
Summary 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 how Haiti's early leaders were presented to transatlantic audiences. From the end of the Haitian Revolution and the moment that Haitian independence was declared in 1804, conservatives and radical thinkers on both sides of the Atlantic used Haiti and its early leaders as central frames of references in discussions of political legitimacy. Against the backdrop of a vibrant and volatile age of revolutions, the different forms of governance adopted by Jean Jacques Dessalines, Henry Christophe and Jean Pierre Boyer were used by writers, playwrights and caricaturists to either support or call into question the legitimacy of America's and Britain's own forms of government
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Subject Legitimacy of governments -- Haiti
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
American literature
English literature
Legitimacy of governments
Politics and government
SUBJECT Haiti -- Politics and government -- 1804-1844. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85058365
Subject Haiti
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783030526085
3030526089