Maroon nation : a history of revolutionary Haiti /

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Author / Creator:	Gonzalez, Johnhenry, author.
Imprint:	New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2019] ©2019
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 302 pages) : illustrations, map
Language:	English
Series:	Yale agrarian studies Yale agrarian studies.
Subject:	Land tenure -- Haiti -- History. Peasants -- Haiti -- History. Economic history. Land tenure. Peasants. Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804. Haiti -- History -- 1804- Haiti -- Economic conditions -- 19th century. Haiti. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13513190

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Other authors / contributors:	Annie Burr Lewis Fund sponsor Mary Cady Tew Memorial Fund sponsor
ISBN:	9780300245554 0300245556 9780300230086 0300230087 9780300230086
Notes:	Published with assistance from the Annie Burr Lewis Fund ; Published with assistance from the Mary Cady Tew Memorial Fund Includes bibliographical references and index. online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed March 1, 2021)
Summary:	"Haiti is widely recognized as the only state born out of a successful slave revolt, but the country's early history remains scarcely understood. In this deeply researched and original volume, Johnhenry Gonzalez weaves a history of early independent Haiti focused on crop production, land reform, and the unauthorized rural settlements devised by former slaves of the colonial plantation system. Analyzing the country's turbulent transition from the most profitable and exploitative slave colony of the eighteenth century to a relatively free society of small farmers, Gonzalez narrates the origins of institutions such as informal open-air marketplaces and rural agrarian compounds known as lakou. Drawing on seldom-studied primary sources to contribute to a growing body of early Haitian scholarship, he argues that Haiti's legacy of runaway communities and land conflict was as formative as the Haitian Revolution in developing the country's characteristic agrarian, mercantile, and religious institutions"--
Other form:	Print version: Gonzalez, Johnhenry. Maroon nation. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019] 9780300230086

Table of Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER ONE: The Maroon Nation Thesis; CHAPTER TWO: The Revolutionary Period, 1791-1804; CHAPTER THREE: Despotism and Forced Labor: Dessalines and the State-Directed Plantation Economy; CHAPTER FOUR: Echoes of the Revolution: Rebellion and Civil War in Early Haiti; CHAPTER FIVE: The Land Question and the Triumph of the Haitian Republic; CHAPTER SIX: The Maroon Economy: Subsistence Production, Cash Crops, and Tax Evasion; Epilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Maroon nation : a history of revolutionary Haiti /

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