{"product_id":"dangerous-neighbors-9780812248319","title":"Dangerous Neighbors","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDangerous Neighbors\u003c\/i\u003e shows how the Haitian Revolution permeated early American print culture and had a profound impact on the young nation''s domestic politics. Focusing on Philadelphia as both a representative and an influential vantage point, it follows contemporary American reactions to the events through which the French colony of Saint Domingue was destroyed and the independent nation of Haiti emerged. Philadelphians made sense of the news from Saint Domingue with local and national political developments in mind and with the French Revolution and British abolition debates ringing in their ears. In witnessing a French colony experience a revolution of African slaves, they made the colony serve as powerful and persuasive evidence in domestic discussions over the meaning of citizenship, equality of rights, and the fate of slavery.\u003cbr\u003eThrough extensive use of manuscript sources, newspapers, and printed literature, Dun uncovers the wide range of opinion and debate about eve\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dun has produced a richly textured, elegantly written history. \u003ci\u003eDangerous Neighbors\u003c\/i\u003e will stimulate original research by graduate students and scholars of early U.S. history for years to come. This book sets a new standard for research in early American newspapers replete with the racialized language white Americans printed publicly and used in official and personal communications to understand and to discuss the Haitian Revolution.\" * \u003ci\u003eJournal of American Ethnic History\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"James Alexander Dun's \u003ci\u003eDangerous Neighbors\u003c\/i\u003e provides essential insight into the Atlantic origins of American nationalism [and] augments recent scholarship . . . in emphasizing what US historians have largely left unexamined-the Haitian Revolution's importance to the development of the \"body politic\" in the early republic.\" * \u003cjournal of african american history\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"With this fine book, James Alexander Dun joins a burgeoning and important scholarship reassessing the long-ignored impact of the Haitian Revolution on early America. Based on monumental research, it offers the most comprehensive account we have of Philadelphia's newspaper coverage and indeed of a broad spectrum of public opinion on the Haitian Revolution as it unfolded. The result shows us not silence but cacophony: a striking portrait of a rich, multifaceted, and contested range of debate. \u003ci\u003eDangerous Neighbors\u003c\/i\u003e will make a lasting contribution to the field.\" * François Furstenberg, Johns Hopkins University *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDangerous Neighbors\u003c\/i\u003e elegantly shows how Philadelphians absorbed, debated, and channeled the news of insurrection, emancipation, and independence in the Caribbean. Dun foregrounds the vitality and complexity of print culture as a forum that at once circulated, interpreted, and framed the transformations brought about by the actions of revolutionaries in Saint-Domingue. And he richly shows how engagement with the challenges posed by these events shaped debates about freedom, race, and nation in the United States.\" * Laurent Dubois, author of \u003ci\u003eHaiti: The Aftershocks of History\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"While offering a deep, nuanced history of the Haitian Revolution, \u003ci\u003eDangerous Neighbors\u003c\/i\u003e is first and foremost a study of early American political culture. James Alexander Dun argues the American people defined their own revolution, figured the place of slavery and African-descended people in their new nation, and determined their national identity through the lens of events in the French colony and, later, the black republic.\" * Matthew J. Clavin, University of Houston *\u003cbr\u003e\"In this eye-blinking demonstration of archival research, Alec Dun has shone a bright light on the vibrant public discourse spawned in Philadelphia in the 1790s by the Haitian Revolution. In this captivating book, Dun reveals something more of great importance: how black insurrection in the hemisphere's most ferocious and profitable slave regime sent shock waves up the Delaware River, obliging Philadelphians to rethink the meaning of their own revolution and to consider whether Haiti-in-flames presaged the advent of the universal rights of mankind.\" * Gary Nash, University of California, Los Angeles *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Making Revolution in Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. France in Miniature: Naming the Revolution\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Unthinking Revolution: French Negroes and Liberty\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The Negrophile Republic: Emancipation and Revolution\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Making Places of Liberty: Emancipation and Antislavery\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Black Jacobins: Saint Domingue in American Politics\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Second Revolutions: Saint Domingue and Jeffersonian America\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Naming Hayti: The End of the Revolution in Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/journal\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405728063831,"sku":"9780812248319","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812248319.jpg?v=1730493417","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dangerous-neighbors-9780812248319","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}