Dear All,
Please see below for details of my new book which may be of interest. Feel
free to circulate. I'm very happy to talk to students, colleagues or
anybody(!!) about the work. Many thanks.
*Haiti in the British Imagination: Imperial Worlds, 1847–1915*
*Liverpool University Press, 2020*
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 and Haitian ‘resistance’, it
is also one of a more complicated set of relations: of rivalry, cultural
exchange and intellectual dialogue. At particular moments in the Victorian
period, ideas about Haiti had wide-reaching relevancies for British
anxieties over the quality of British imperial administration, over what
should be the relations between ‘the British’ and people of African
descent, and defining the limits of black sovereignty. Haitians were key in
formulating, disseminating and correcting ideas about Haiti and about
British imperialism. Through acts of dialogue, Britons and Haitians
impacted on the worldviews of one another, and with that changed the
political and cultural landscapes of the Atlantic World.
Available in hardback and as an e-book from Liverpool University Press.
More details here <https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/id/54502/>.
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