Title Entrepôt of revolutions : Saint-Domingue, commercial sovereignty, and the French-American alliance / Manuel Covo

Published New York : Oxford University Press, [2022] ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 304 pages): illustrations (black and white) Summary "Entrepôt of Revolutions places the American, French, and Haitian revolutions in a single, connected, analytic frame. At the heart of this relationship was not just republican politics, but also commerce between France and the United States, commerce that turned on the fate of Saint-Domingue/Haiti. The book centers imperial trade as a driving force, arguing that commercial factors preceded and conditioned political change across the revolutionary Atlantic. At the crux of these transformations was the "entrepôt," the "Pearl of the Caribbean," whose economy grew dramatically as a direct consequence of the American Revolution and the French-American alliance. Saint-Domingue was the single most profitable colony in the Americas in the second half of the eighteenth century, thanks to staggering production of sugar and coffee and the unpaid labor of hundreds of thousands of enslaved people. Through Saint-Domingue we see the Franco-American relationship for what it really was and resolve many of the paradoxes of the era. The colony was so focused on producing sugar and coffee that it needed to import food. Mainland North America was the Caribbean's breadbasket, with exports of flour, livestock, salted meats, and timber to Saint-Domingue accounting for a huge portion of U.S. exports. The book chronicles the rapidly changing set of relationships that emerged as the United States developed a trade regime independent of Great Britain and sheds light on the three-way struggle among France, the United States and Haiti to assert, define, and maintain "commercial" sovereignty"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed on November 17, 2023) Subject Revolutions -- Economic aspects Commerce SUBJECT Haiti -- Commerce -- United States -- History -- 18th century United States -- Commerce -- Haiti -- History -- 18th century Haiti -- Commerce -- France -- History -- 18th century France -- Commerce -- Haiti -- History -- 18th century France -- Commerce -- United States -- History -- 18th century United States -- Commerce -- France -- History -- 18th century Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804 -- Economic aspects France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Economic aspects. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051329 United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Economic aspects Haiti -- History -- 18th century Subject France Haiti United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780197626405 0197626408 9780197626429 0197626424

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