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Haiti in the British Imagination
In 1804, Haiti declared its independence from France to become the world’s first ‘black’ nation state. Throughout the nineteenth century, Haiti maintained its independence, consolidating and expanding its national and, at times, imperial projects. In doing so, Haiti joined a host of other nation states and empires that were emerging and expanding across the Atlantic World. The largest and, in many ways, most powerful of these empires was that of Britain. Haiti in the British Imagination is the first book to focus on the diplomatic relations and cultural interactions between Haiti and Britain in the second half of the nineteenth century. As well as a story of British imperial aggression...
The Invention of Order
Don Thomas Deere retraces the colonial origins of spatial organization in the Americas and the Caribbean and its lasting impact on modern structures of knowledge, power, race, and gender. Deere shows how what he calls the coloniality of space dispossessed Indigenous, African, and mixed populations as it constructed new systems of control and movement in ways that continue to shape our understandings of global modernity.
The Republic of "Hait-Me"
Less than three decades after the United Colonies declared independence from Britain and became the first independent nation in the Western Hemisphere known as The United States of America, there was another declaration of independence resulting in the formation of the first Black republic in the world and the second republic in the Western Hemisphere by way of the first and only successful, self-emancipating slave revolt, making The Republic of Haiti the first independent nation in the Caribbean. Instead of being respected and celebrated for these phenomenal "firsts", Haiti has been the subject of what appears to be a fervid grudge that has spanned two centuries and continues to this day. When juxtaposing America's quest to break away from British colonialism against Haiti's quest to break away from French colonialism, what could Haiti have possibly done different from America that merited perpetual ill treatment from the beginning of the 19th century to this very day? Join me in examining the roots of Haiti's 200 year burden.
Haiti for the Haitians
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. The world-historical significance of the Haitian Revolution is now firmly established in mainstream history. Yet Haiti’s nineteenth-century has yet to receive its due, this despite independent Haiti’s vital importance as the first nation to permanently ban slavery and its ongoing struggle for sovereignty in the Atlantic World. Louis-Joseph Janvier (1855–1911) is one of the foremost Haitian intellectuals and diplomats of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His prolific oeuvre offered enduring challenges to racist slanders of Haiti and critiques of the global i...
Doc-in-a-box
When his license is suspended for failing to report a gunshot wound, former plastic surgeon Dr. Webb Smith gets a job working the night shift in an all-night medical clinic while he waits out his suspension.
Southern Reporter
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Of Mouse and Man
‘Ask me to paint anything you wish and I will try no matter how specific or surreal your demands. You name it. I’ll paint it. On Paint.’ Jim has painted some truly unhinged requests – from ‘Kanye West giving birth to himself’ and 'Ross Kemp on toast' to 'A swan wearing Björk as a dress' and ‘Bill Oddie beating Hitler at Catchphrase’ – each brought to life with painstaking detail using nothing but an archaic version of Microsoft Paint and an optical mouse. Many have since become beloved icons of British internet culture, such as ‘The chestburster scene from Alien portrayed by famous TV puppets’ and the infamous 'Tory Squat Party'. Of Mouse and Man is the very best of Jim’s first five years of work alongside never-before-seen material and unique insights into his creative process.
Oxf. Hist. Soc
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