Dangerous Neighbors: Making the Haitian Revolution in Early America

by James Alexander Dun

Dangerous Neighbors shows how the Haitian Revolution permeated early American print culture and had a profound impact on the young nation's domestic politics. Focusing on Philadelphia as both a representative and an influential vantage point, it follows contemporary American reactions to the events through which the French colony of Saint Domingue was destroyed and the independent nation of Haiti emerged. Philadelphians made sense of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812248317
• ISBN13: 9780812248319
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.8" x 9.1"