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020			_a9781139050173 (ebook)
020			_z9780521836807 (hardback)
020			_z9780521545310 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aKGS294 _b.G48 2012
082	0	0	_a349.7294 _223
100	1		_aGhachem, Malick W., _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution / _cMalick W. Ghachem.
246	3		_aThe Old Regime & the Haitian Revolution
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2012.
300			_a1 online resource (366 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aThe Haitian Revolution (1789–1804) was an epochal event that galvanized slaves and terrified planters throughout the Atlantic world. Rather than view this tumultuous period solely as a radical rupture with slavery, Malick W. Ghachem's innovative study shows that emancipation in Haiti was also a long-term product of its colonial legal history. Ghachem takes us deep into this volatile colonial past, digging beyond the letter of the law and vividly re-enacting such episodes as the extraordinary prosecution of a master for torturing and killing his slaves. This book brings us face-to-face with the revolutionary invocation of Old Regime law by administrators seeking stability, but also by free people of color and slaves demanding citizenship and an end to brutality. The result is a subtle yet dramatic portrait of the strategic stakes of colonial governance in the land that would become Haiti.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521836807
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139050173
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c38216 _d38216