Entrepôt of Revolutions
Saint-Domingue, Commercial Sovereignty, and the French-American Alliance
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 12 December 2022
- ISBN 9780197626399
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 157x237x20 mm
- Weight 467 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 11 black and white halftones 270
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Short description:
Entrepôt of Revolutions centers imperial trade as a driving force in the revolutionary Atlantic, arguing that commercial factors preceded and conditioned political change. At the crux of these transformations was the "entrepôt," Saint-Domingue whose economy grew dramatically as a direct consequence of the American Revolution and the French-American alliance.
MoreLong description:
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.
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.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Greatest Revolution in Commerce and Politics, 1776-1784
Chapter 2 An Inexhaustible Mine of Wealth, 1784-1788
Chapter 3 The Whole and the Parts, 1789-1790
Chapter 4 An Empire of Liberty? 1790-1793
Chapter 5 The Best of a Bad Bargain, 1789-1793
Chapter 6 The Atlantic Politics of Commercial Republicanism, 1793-1794
Chapter 7 The Unfree Trade of an Abolitionist Colony, 1793-1796
Chapter 8 Politicizing Merchant Identities, 1793-1798
Chapter 9 Trade and War: A Fiscal-Military State in the French Empire, 1797-1801
Epilogue The Collapse of Commercial Republicanism and the Enduring Power of Imperial Trade
Notes
Index
