Dear All,
Please join me in discussion with Matt Smith, Charles Forsdick and Nicole
Wilson on Wed 3rd March at 4pm (UK time) for the launch of my new book,
Haiti in the British Imagination: Imperial Worlds, 1847-1915.
It is free and on Zoom. Please see here for further details and to
register:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/haiti-in-the-british-imagination-imperial-worlds-1847-1915-book-launch-tickets-142909842185
Or feel free to email me ([log in to unmask]).
All best wishes,
Jack
Book blurb:
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. 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.
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