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Détails
Personne nommée: | Toussaint Louverture |
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Type d’ouvrage: | Biographie |
Type de document: | Livre |
Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs: |
Cyril Lionel Robert James; James Walvin |
ISBN: | 0140299815 9780140299816 |
Numéro OCLC: | 491194036 |
Description: | 1 vol. (XX-363 p.) : carte. ; 20 cm. |
Contenu: | The property; the owners; parliament and property; the San Domingo masses begin; and the Paris masses complete; the rise of Toussaint; the Mulattoes try and fail; the white slave-owners again; the expulsion of the British; Toussaint seizes the power; the black consul; the bourgeoisie prepares to restore slavery; the War of Independence. |
Responsabilité: | C. L. R. James ; with an introduction and notes by James Walvin. |
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The black Plato of our generation ... the founding father of African emancipation. * The Times * Contains some of the finest and most deeply felt polemical writing against slavery and racism ever to be published. * Time Out * The Black Jacobins is one of the great books of the twentieth century ... one that wrote the history of a people supposedly without history. -- Catherine Hall James is, quite simply, the outstanding West Indian of the twentieth century. -- Caryl Phillips A starting point and an intellectual inspiration ... a classic of masterly historical writing. -- James Walvin James is not afraid to touch his pen with the flame of ardent personal feeling - a sense of justice, love of freedom, admiration for heroism, hatred for tyranny - and his detailed, richly documented and dramatically written book holds a deep and lasting interest. -- New York Times Lire la suite...

