The Promise and the Threat of Boyer and Haitian Republicanism
Forde outlines how Jean Pierre Boyer’s unification of northern and southern Haiti under one republican government was a moment of celebration for a number of republican supporters in both America and Britain in the early 1820s. At a time when revolutions
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The Early Haitian State and the Question of Political Legitimacy American and British Representations of Haiti, 1804–1824 James Forde
Palgrave Studies in Political History
Series Editors Henk te Velde Leiden University Leiden, The Netherlands Maartje Janse Leiden University Leiden, The Netherlands Hagen Schulz-Forberg Aarhus University Aarhus, Denmark
The contested nature of legitimacy lies at the heart of modern politics. A continuous tension can be found between the public, demanding to be properly represented, and their representatives, who have their own responsibilities along with their own rules and culture. Political history needs to address this contestation by looking at politics as a broad and yet entangled field rather than as something confined to institutions and politicians only. As political history thus widens into a more integrated study of politics in general, historians are investigating democracy, ideology, civil society, the welfare state, the diverse expressions of opposition, and many other key elements of modern political legitimacy from fresh perspectives. Parliamentary history has begun to study the way rhetoric, culture and media shape representation, while a new social history of politics is uncovering the strategies of popular meetings and political organizations to influence the political system. Palgrave Studies in Political History analyzes the changing forms and functions of political institutions, movements and actors, as well as the normative orders within which they navigate. Its ambition is to publish monographs, edited volumes and Pivots exploring both political institutions and political life at large, and the interaction between the two. The premise of the series is that the two mutually define each other on local, national, transnational, and even global levels. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/15603
James Forde
The Early Haitian State and the Question of Political Legitimacy American and British Representations of Haiti, 1804 ‒1824
James Forde Department of History Griffith University Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Palgrave Studies in Political History ISBN 978-3-030-52607-8 ISBN 978-3-030-52608-5 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52608-5 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt
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