The Haitian Revolution, History's New Frontier: State of the Scholarship and Archival Sources

Girard, Philippe

doi:10.1080/0144039x.2012.734089

“…Toussaint was a military genius who led an army composed overwhelmingly of former enslaved Africans and people of African descent to victory after victory under the banner 'Liberty or Death' over the professional armies of France, Spain, and Britain, before paying the ultimate price himself for refusing to compromise with imperial power at the expense of the maintenance of liberty for all. His imprisonment in a freezing cold cell in the Jura mountains inspired a sonnet by William Wordsworth in 1803 paying tribute to Toussaint as an immortal symbol of 'man's unconquerable mind', meaning that 'there's not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee' (Bell 2008: 3, 294; For recent work on the Haitian Revolution see Dubois 2005 andGirard 2013a).…”

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League Against Imperialism and for National Independence (LAI)

Dinkel

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2021

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism

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This chapter examines labour unrest and strikes against Dutch efforts to reclaim Indonesia as an imperial colony in Australia during the Second World War as a precursor to the decolonization project in Southeast Asia. The chapter reveals that a coalition of workers emerged who strove to end colonialism in China, India, and Indonesia which was instrumental in expanding the movement to decolonize the Southeast Asian and South Asian regions. As the colonial systems were eroded by the Japanese imperial invasion new systems would emerge to initiate the construction of new states.

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“…Toussaint was a military genius who led an army composed overwhelmingly of former enslaved Africans and people of African descent to victory after victory under the banner 'Liberty or Death' over the professional armies of France, Spain, and Britain, before paying the ultimate price himself for refusing to compromise with imperial power at the expense of the maintenance of liberty for all. His imprisonment in a freezing cold cell in the Jura mountains inspired a sonnet by William Wordsworth in 1803 paying tribute to Toussaint as an immortal symbol of 'man's unconquerable mind', meaning that 'there's not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee' (Bell 2008: 3, 294; For recent work on the Haitian Revolution see Dubois 2005 andGirard 2013a).…”

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Labor

2021

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism

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This chapter examines labour unrest and strikes against Dutch efforts to reclaim Indonesia as an imperial colony in Australia during the Second World War as a precursor to the decolonization project in Southeast Asia. The chapter reveals that a coalition of workers emerged who strove to end colonialism in China, India, and Indonesia which was instrumental in expanding the movement to decolonize the Southeast Asian and South Asian regions. As the colonial systems were eroded by the Japanese imperial invasion new systems would emerge to initiate the construction of new states.

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“…13 13 On the increasing attention granted to the events in late eighteenth‐century Saint Domingue since the 1990s, see e.g., Wilén (2019); Ferrer (2019); Joseph (2012); Moyn (2013, p. 187); Garraway (2008, pp. 4, 21); Girard (2013, p. 486); Blackburn (2009, p. 393); Armitage and Gaffield (2016, p. 7); Popkin (2010, p. 382); Ferrer (2008, p. 21); Goldstein Sepinwall (2013, p. 93). …”

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Structure, Temporality, and Theories of Revolution. Reading Alberto Melucci in Revolutionary Saint Domingue, 1791–1804

Wilén

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2021

J Historical Sociology

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This article addresses the debate on structure, agency, and process in contemporary revolution theory, drawing on social movement theory and using the Haitian Revolution as an illustrative case.The article seeks to make three main contributions. Firstly, while accepting the critique against the failure of structuralist revolution theory to explain why revolutions can occur under difficult circumstances, the article proposes a structuralist solution instead of the focus on intentions and processes in contemporary revolution theory. Secondly, it brings a new angle to the emerging dialogue between the different fields that theorize social movements and revolutions, by combining Alberto Melucci's early and later approaches to social movements and temporality. Thirdly, the Meluccian approach is utilized in a case study that explores how independence from France can be understood in the Haitian Revolution, which serves to illustrate the strengths of the theoretical approach and to criticize the major accounts of independence in existing studies of the Haitian Revolution.

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The Haitian Revolution, History's New Frontier: State of the Scholarship and Archival Sources

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