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Languages : fr
Pages : 24
Book Description
Catalogue de monnaies, médailles et jetons provenant de la collection de M. l'avocat Dresse
Author: Orestes
Author: VoltairePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1627933212
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Orestes was produced in 1750, an experiment which intensely interested the literary world and the public. In his Dedicatory Letters to the Duchess of Maine, Voltaire has the following passage on the Greek drama: "We should not, I acknowledge, endeavor to imitate what is weak and defective in the ancients: it is most probable that their faults were well known to their contemporaries. I am satisfied, Madam, that the wits of Athens condemned, as well as you, some of those repetitions, and some declamations with which Sophocles has loaded his Electra: they must have observed that he had not dived deep enough into the human heart. I will moreover fairly confess, that there are beauties peculiar not only to the Greek language, but to the climate, to manners and times, which it would be ridiculous to transplant hither. Therefore I have not copied exactly the Electra of Sophocles-much more I knew would be necessary; but I have taken, as well as I could, all the spirit and substance of it."
Catalogue d'une collection de monnaies, jetons et médailles provenant d'un amateur décédé ...
Author: Catalogue d'une collection de monnaies, jetons et médailles, provenant de plusieurs collections ...
Author: Catalogue d'une collection de monnaies, médailles, jetons et méreaux provenant de divers amateurs, dont la vente publique aura lieu ... 5 septembre 1871
Author: The Haitian Revolution
Author: Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1624661777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
"A landmark collection of documents by the field's leading scholar. This reader includes beautifully written introductions and a fascinating array of never-before-published primary documents. These treasures from the archives offer a new picture of colonial Saint-Domingue and the Haitian Revolution. The translations are lively and colorful." --Alyssa Sepinwall, California State University San Marcos
Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives
Author: Jane LandersPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826323972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A comprehensive study of African slavery in the colonies of Spain and Portugal in the New World.
Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue
Author: J. GarrigusPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403984433
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This book details how France's most profitable plantation colony became Haiti, Latin America's first independent nation, through an uprising by slaves and the largest and wealthiest free population of people of African descent in the New World. Garrigus explains the origins of this free colored class, exposes the ways its members supported and challenged slavery, and examines how they shaped a new 'American' identity.
Haitian Revolutionary Studies
Author: David Patrick GeggusPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253109264
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The Haitian Revolution of 1789–1803 transformed the Caribbean's wealthiest colony into the first independent state in Latin America, encompassed the largest slave uprising in the Americas, and inflicted a humiliating defeat on three colonial powers. In Haitian Revolutionary Studies, David Patrick Geggus sheds new light on this tremendous upheaval by marshaling an unprecedented range of evidence drawn from archival research in six countries. Geggus's fine-grained essays explore central issues and little-studied aspects of the conflict, including new historiography and sources, the origins of the black rebellion, and relations between slaves and free people of color. The contributions of vodou and marronage to the slave uprising, Toussaint Louverture and the abolition question, the policies of the major powers toward the revolution, and its interaction with the early French Revolution are also addressed. Questions about ethnicity, identity, and historical knowledge inform this essential study of a complex revolution.
The Plantation Machine
Author: Trevor BurnardPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812248295
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. Trevor Burnard and John Garrigus trace how the plantation machine developed between 1748 and 1788 and was perfected against a backdrop of almost constant external war and imperial competition.