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Book SynopsisExamines developments within several societies in the Greater Caribbean during the revolutionary period to illustrate the pervasive and multi-layered impact of the revolutions on the region.
Trade Review"... excellent ... While some anthologies suffer from unevenness and lack a coherent center, A Turbulent Time is a series of nine well-written essays whose whole is the sum of its parts." The Journal of American History "Anyone who wants to thoroughly understand the period in question should own this book." Caribbean Historical & Genealogical Journal "Stimulating, incisive, insightful, sometimes revisionist, this volume is required reading for historians of comparative colonialism in an age of revolution." Choice "All of the essays are beautiflly crafted and researched and analytically rigorous. It is destined to become an instant classic, inspiring historians of slavery to even greater heights of research and analysis." H-Net Reviews
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. Slavery, War, and Revolution in the Greater Caribbean 1789–1815, David P. Geggus
2. The French revolution in Saint Dominique: Triumph or Failure?, Carolyn E. Fick
3. The French Revolution and British Attitudes to the Caribbean Colonies, Michael Duffy
4. La Guerre des Bois: Revolution, War and Slavery in Saint Lucia, 1793–1838, David Barry Gaspar
5. Slave Resistance in the Spanish Caribbean in the Mid- 1790s, David P. Geggus
6. Rebellion and Royalism in Spanish Florida: The French Revolution on Spain's Northern Colonial Frontier, Jane Landers
7. Conflicting Loyalties: The French Revolution and Free People of Color in Spanish New Orleans, Kimberly S. Hanger
8. Revolutionary St. Dominique in the Making of Territorial Louisiana, Robert L. Paquette
9. The Admission of Slave Testimony at British Military Courts in the West Indies, 1800–1809, Roger N. Buckley
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