Entrepôt of revolutions : Saint-Domingue, commercial sovereignty, and the French-American alliance

Entrepôt of revolutions : Saint-Domingue, commercial sovereignty, and the French-American alliance

New York : Oxford University Press, 2022.

xi, 304 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

382.097294 C877 2022

(OCoLC)1327833464

"Entrepôt of Revolutions places the American, French, and Haitian revolutions in a single, connected, analytic frame. At the heart of this relationship was not just republican politics, but also commerce between France and the United States, commerce that turned on the fate of Saint-Domingue/Haiti. The book centers imperial trade as a driving force, arguing that commercial factors preceded and conditioned political change across the revolutionary Atlantic. At the crux of these transformations was the "entrepôt," 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, thanks to staggering production of sugar and coffee and the unpaid labor of hundreds of thousands of enslaved people. Through Saint-Domingue we see the Franco-American relationship for what it really was and resolve many of the paradoxes of the era ... "--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-294) and index.
L2022M143

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