Book contents
- Frontmatter
- I THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MIDDLE AND SOUTH AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE CONQUEST
- II COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
- III COLONIAL BRAZIL
- IV THE INDEPENDENCE OF LATIN AMERICA
- 1 The origins of Spanish American independence
- 2 The independence of Mexico and Central America
- 3 The independence of Spanish South America
- 4 The independence of Haiti and the Dominican Republic
- 5 The independence of Brazil
- 6 International politics and Latin American independence
- V LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1820 TO c. 1870
- VI LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1870 to 1930
- VII LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
- VIII IDEAS IN LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- IX LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- X THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA
4 - The independence of Haiti and the Dominican Republic
from IV - THE INDEPENDENCE OF LATIN AMERICA
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
- Frontmatter
- I THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MIDDLE AND SOUTH AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE CONQUEST
- II COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
- III COLONIAL BRAZIL
- IV THE INDEPENDENCE OF LATIN AMERICA
- 1 The origins of Spanish American independence
- 2 The independence of Mexico and Central America
- 3 The independence of Spanish South America
- 4 The independence of Haiti and the Dominican Republic
- 5 The independence of Brazil
- 6 International politics and Latin American independence
- V LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1820 TO c. 1870
- VI LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1870 to 1930
- VII LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
- VIII IDEAS IN LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- IX LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- X THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA
Summary
Among contemporary works, Médéric L. E. Moreau de Saint-Méry, Description topographique, physique, civile, politique et historique de la partie française de I’isle de Saint Domingue, 2 vols. (Philadelphia, 1797–8; 3 vols., Paris, 1984; English version, abridged, edited and translated by Ivor A. Spencer, A Civilization That Perished: The Last Years of White Colonial Rule in Haiti (Lanham, Md., 1985), and Bryan Edwards, An Historical Survey of the French Colony in the Island of St. Domingo (London, 1797) offer the most comprehensive view of the economic, social and political problems of colonial Saint-Domingue in the years immediately before the French Revolution. See also on Haiti before 1808, Thomas Madiou, Histoire d’Haiti, vols. 1–3 (1847–8; Port-au-Prince, 1904). The best and most comprehensive work on the Haitian Revolution continues to be C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (New York, 1938; and numerous later editions). Other, less satisfactory, works include José L. Franco, Historia de la revolution de Haiti (Havana, 1966), and T. O. Ott, The Haitian Revolution, 1789–1804 (Knoxville, 1973). A book now out of fashion because of its racism, though still retaining some interest, is T. Lothrop Stoddard, The French Revolution in San Domingo (Boston, 1914; reprint, 1982). Among the many biographies of Toussaint Louverture two are now classics: Victor Schoelcher, Vie de Toussaint-Louverture (1889; Paris, 1982), and Horace Pauléus Sannon, Histoire de Toussaint-Louverture, 3 vols. (Port-au-Prince, 1920–33). See also Pierre Pluchon, Toussaint-Louverture, d’esclavage au pouvoir (Paris, 1979). There are contrasting accounts of the military side of the Revolution.
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- The Cambridge History of Latin America , pp. 234 - 238Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995