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Haiti in the British Imagination - Imperial Worlds, 1847-1915 (Hardcover)
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Haiti in the British Imagination - Imperial Worlds, 1847-1915 (Hardcover)
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In 1804, Haiti declared its independence from France to become the
world's first 'black' nation state. Throughout the nineteenth
century, Haiti maintained its independence, consolidating and
expanding its national and, at times, imperial projects. In doing
so, Haiti joined a host of other nation states and empires that
were emerging and expanding across the Atlantic World. The largest
and, in many ways, most powerful of these empires was that of
Britain. Haiti in the British Imagination is the first book to
focus on the diplomatic relations and cultural interactions between
Haiti and Britain in the second half of the nineteenth century. As
well as a story of British imperial aggression and Haitian
'resistance', it is also one of a more complicated set of
relations: of rivalry, cultural exchange and intellectual dialogue.
At particular moments in the Victorian period, ideas about Haiti
had wide-reaching relevancies for British anxieties over the
quality of British imperial administration, over what should be the
relations between 'the British' and people of African descent, and
defining the limits of black sovereignty. Haitians were key in
formulating, disseminating and correcting ideas about Haiti.
Through acts of dialogue, Britons and Haitians impacted on the
worldviews of one another, and with that changed the political and
cultural landscapes of the Atlantic World.
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