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Entrepot of Revolutions - Saint-Domingue, Commercial Sovereignty, and the French-American Alliance (Hardcover)
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Entrepot of Revolutions - Saint-Domingue, Commercial Sovereignty, and the French-American Alliance (Hardcover)
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The Age of Revolutions has been celebrated for the momentous
transition from absolute monarchies to representative governments
and the creation of nation-states in the Atlantic world. Much less
recognized than the spread of democratic ideals was the period's
growing traffic of goods, capital, and people across imperial
borders and reforming states' attempts to control this mobility.
Analyzing the American, French, and Haitian revolutions in an
interconnected narrative, Manuel Covo centers imperial trade as a
driving force, arguing that commercial factors preceded and
conditioned political change across the revolutionary Atlantic. At
the heart of these transformations was the "entrepot," the island
known as 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, with its staggering production of sugar and
coffee and the unpaid labor of enslaved people. The colony was so
focused on its lucrative exports that it needed to import food and
timber from North America, which generated enormous debate in
France about the nature of its sovereignty over Saint-Domingue. At
the same time, the newly independent United States had to come to
terms with contradictory interests between the imperial ambitions
of European powers, its connections with the Caribbean, and its own
domestic debates over the future of slavery. This work sheds light
on the three-way struggle among France, the United States, and
Haiti to assert, define, and maintain "commercial" sovereignty.
Drawing on a wealth of archives in France, the United States, and
the United Kingdom, Entrepot of Revolutions offers an innovative
perspective on the primacy of economic factors in this era, as
politicians and theorists, planters and merchants, ship captains,
smugglers, and the formerly enslaved all attempted to transform
capitalism in the Atlantic world.
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