Books & ideas

Was New Orleans Caribbean?

Andy Cabot — 2020-04-20T07:00:00Z

Until recently, the history of French colonial New Orleans was treated as an exception. Writing a total social history of 18^th Century New Orleans, Cécile Vidal offers to reframe it as a Caribbean outpost of the French Empire rather than as a North American frontier town.

Slave Ship Rebellions

Thomas Mareite — 2019-11-21T08:00:00Z

In 1841, the Creole, an American ship with 139 enslaved people onboard, was hijacked at sea by a group of determined rebels in their midst. Kerr-Ritchie's book sheds new light on this iconic episode of the Revolutionary Atlantic in the 19^th century, telling a tale of successful self-emancipation.

Postcolonial Archipelago

Jack Corbett — 2019-10-28T08:00:00Z

Small jurisdictions of the Caribbeans are not only offshore facilities, but also political entities, products of colonial history and local societies. An edited volume explores the different ways in which non-sovereign territories of the archipelago have maintained ties with their former European colonisers.

Global France

Ivan Jablonka & Silyane Larcher — 2010-10-08T08:30:32Z

In his previous research, Laurent Dubois showed how the Caribbean revolutions implemented the ideals of 1789. He now calls for rethinking the history of France thanks to the incorporation of its extra-territorial dimensions : slavery, the Caribbean, the Altantic, the colonial empire and immigration.