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

Awards:   Winner of Winner, Gilbert Chinard Prize, Society for French Historical Studies Honorable Mention, Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize of the Society for French Colonial Historical Society. Winner of Winner, Gilbert Chinard Prize, Society for French Historical Studies Honorable Mention, Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize. Winner of Winner, Gilbert Chinard Prize, Society for French Historical Studies.
Author:   Manuel Covo (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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9780197626399


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   12 December 2022
Format:   Paperback
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  • Winner of Winner, Gilbert Chinard Prize, Society for French Historical Studies Honorable Mention, Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize of the Society for French Colonial Historical Society.
  • Winner of Winner, Gilbert Chinard Prize, Society for French Historical Studies Honorable Mention, Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize.
  • Winner of Winner, Gilbert Chinard Prize, Society for French Historical Studies.

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"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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Author:   Manuel Covo (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.70cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 15.70cm
Weight:   0.467kg
ISBN:  

9780197626399


ISBN 10:   0197626394
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   12 December 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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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. * Marcus Rediker, author of The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom * 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. * Jeremy D. Popkin, author of A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution * 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. * Ashli White, University of Miami * [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. * Alan Forrest, French History * 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. * Lindsay Schakenbach Regele, The Americas * 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. * Tessa de Boer, International Journal of Maritime History *


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. * Marcus Rediker, author of The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom * 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. * Jeremy D. Popkin, author of A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution * Entrepot 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. * Ashli White, University of Miami *


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

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