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Entrepôt of Revolutions: Saint-Domingue, Commercial Sovereignty, and the French-American Alliance

Autor Manuel Covo
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 dec 2022
The Age of Revolutions has been celebrated for the momentous transition from absolute monarchies to representative governments and the creation of nation-states in the Atlantic world. Much less recognized than the spread of democratic ideals was the period's growing traffic of goods, capital, and people across imperial borders and reforming states' attempts to control this mobility. Analyzing the American, French, and Haitian revolutions in an interconnected narrative, Manuel Covo centers imperial trade as a driving force, arguing that commercial factors preceded and conditioned political change across the revolutionary Atlantic. At the heart of these transformations was the "entrepôt," the island known as 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, with its staggering production of sugar and coffee and the unpaid labor of enslaved people. The colony was so focused on its lucrative exports that it needed to import food and timber from North America, which generated enormous debate in France about the nature of its sovereignty over Saint-Domingue. At the same time, the newly independent United States had to come to terms with contradictory interests between the imperial ambitions of European powers, its connections with the Caribbean, and its own domestic debates over the future of slavery. This work sheds light on the three-way struggle among France, the United States, and Haiti to assert, define, and maintain "commercial" sovereignty. Drawing on a wealth of archives in France, the United States, and the United Kingdom, Entrepôt of Revolutions offers an innovative perspective on the primacy of economic factors in this era, as politicians and theorists, planters and merchants, ship captains, smugglers, and the formerly enslaved all attempted to transform capitalism in the Atlantic world.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197626399
ISBN-10: 0197626394
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 11 black and white halftones
Dimensiuni: 237 x 157 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

Manuel Covo takes the excellent recent scholarship on Haiti to a new level by showing the centrality of the island nation to the political economy and culture of the 'age of revolution.' This smart, sophisticated, deeply researched, and gracefully written book establishes its author as a leading historian of the French Atlantic.
Manuel Covo's exciting monograph gives us a new picture of the ways in which the Haitian Revolution reshaped the Atlantic world. Covo's convincing research shows that the economic consequences of that upheaval were as important as its impact on slavery. This book will be essential reading not just for scholars of French colonial history and of the Haitian Revolution, but for those working on this period of American history.
Entrepôt of Revolutions is an innovative interpretation of the centrality of commerce to the age of Atlantic revolutions. Through Manuel Covo's engaging narrative, we see how Saint-Domingue was a dynamic site of commercial experimentation, where American, French, and Haitian actors sought to capitalize on republican ruptures and, in the process, shaped the contours of all three revolutions. Exhaustively researched and smartly conceived, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the era.
[A] highly innovative study...[Covo's] main focus is on economic policy and the interplay of economics and politics: he analyses the role that Saint Domingue played as a hub of global capitalism and argues that the economic consequences of the Haitian revolution were every bit as significant as its contribution to political culture.
There is no shortage of works on Atlantic empires, economies, or revolutions, and yet Manuel Covo's Entrepôt of Revolutions reframes how we think about all of these things...This is not... a book about only economic debates in the abstract, but one on the complicated realities and shifting networks that defined the era of imperial overthrow in the Americas...The intricacies and changing dynamics of new iterations of the 'triangular trade,'...will be important for any scholar or student interested in the 'rapidly globalizing economy' of the late eighteenth century.
Manuel Covo has taken on the Age of Revolutions, successively deconstructing and reconstructing the American, French and Haitian revolutions through the lens of (mostly French) political economy... The book features a wide range of historical actors, geographies and sources in an elegant and effective mix of top-down and bottom-up perspectives. The result of this complexity is a ravishing portrait of historical reality and a deep reflection on the human experience of living through a historic moment...Covo presents us with a healthy and artfully crafted reminder that living through one of the major grand narratives of western historiography was, in all, not always a grand experience.
In Entrepôt of Revolutions, Manuel Covo has taken on the Age of Revolutions, successively deconstructing and reconstructing the American, French and Haitian revolutions through the lens of (mostly French) political economy...the book features a wide range of historical actors, geographies and sources in an elegant and effective mix of top-down and bottom-up perspectives.
This remarkable book is at once a social history, a history of ideas, and a history of political economy.
Entrepôt of Revolutions is a stimulating and ambitious work and a pleasure to read. Deeply researched and underpinned by a sophisticated multiscale approach, it is sure to become essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the interconnections between the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions.
Covo has produced a truly remarkable transnational history of Saint-Domingue, the United States, and France during the era of Atlantic revolutions.
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By placing trade at the center of the story, Entrepôt of Revolutions destabilizes the French -- American alliance from its revolutionary capitals, and instead argues that Saint-Domingue represents the core of eighteenth-century global capitalism... Covo's book helps historians reconsider the dimensions of the American, French, and Haitian revolutions in an interconnected, commercial story...Covo's novel approach of interrogating the statecraft of commerce and the politics underlying transimperial trade represents the greatest triumph of the book and convincingly forwards the crucial argument that imperial trade and racial capitalism--the idea that racialized exploitation and capital accumulation were mutually reinforcing--define the age of commercial republicanism, with Saint-Domingue at the center.
This remarkable book is at once a social history, a history of ideas, and a history of political economy. Deeply researched in U.S., French, and British official records, plus scores of personal and business papers of traders and merchants in the United States and France who did business with Saint Domingue/Haiti (some of whom had fled from Saint-Domingue during the upheaval), as well as relevant local newspapers, Entrepôt of Revolutions makes an important and original contribution to our understanding of the Age of Revolutions and Atlantic History more generally. It is a rare author who is equally comfortable in treatises of political economy and customs duties receipts, but Covo's seamless move between such varied sources makes his argument deeply compelling.
Covo succeeds remarkably well at flipping the script of the French-American Alliance to a colonial story that exposes the centrality of Saint Domingue within this alliance... Entrepôt of Revolutions is a stimulating and ambitious work and a pleasure to read. Deeply researched and underpinned by a sophisticated multiscale approach, it is sure to become essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the interconnections between the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions.
A truly remarkable transnational history of Saint-Domingue, the United States, and France during the era of Atlantic revolutions...Covo has constructed a phenomenal and convincing study that forces the reader to grapple with the fact that, indeed, commercial sovereignty, trade, and economic policy were major driving forces in the Age of Revolutions.
As Manuel Covo argues in Entrepôt of Revolution...ongoing trade between the eastern seaboard of North America and French Saint-Domingue is an important lens for comprehending the middle years of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions... This book adds needed depth to how Saint-Domingue and then Haiti became a site of interimperial tussling between France, Great Britain, Spain, and the United States. It highlights the stakes for the various colonial governments...And it shows that the demand for grain and other foodstuffs played a crucial role in driving the colonial government's policy throughout the Haitian Revolution.

Notă biografică

Manuel Covo is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.