"This volume arises from the conference 'War, Empire and Slavery, 1790-1820', held at The King's Manor, University of York, UK, 16-18 May 2008"--Introd. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The 'revolutionary age' in the wider world, c.1790-1830 / C. A. Bayly -- The revolutionary abolitionists of Haiti / Laurent Dubois -- Race and slavery in the making of Arab France, 1802-1815 / Ian Coller -- The making of warriors : the militarization of the Rio de la Plata, 1806-1807 / Alejandro Rabinovich -- The French conspiracy of 1795 : paranoia and opportunism on the eve of independence in Buenos Aires / Lyman L. Johnson -- Armed with swords and ostrich feathers : militarism and cultural revolution in the Cape slave uprising of 1808 / Nigel Worden -- Jacques-Pierre Brissot and the fate of Atlantic antislavery during the age of revolutionary wars / Marie-Jeanne Rossignol -- Borderlands of empire, borderlands of race / Julie Winch -- The French revolutionary wars in the Spanish-American imagination, 1810-1830 / Rebecca Earle -- Old subjects, new subjects, and non-subjects : silences and subjecthood in FeĢdon's Rebellion, Grenada, 1795-1796 / Caitlin Anderson -- The Russian empire : military encounters and national identity / Janet Hartley -- War, empire, and the 'other' : Iranian-European contacts in the 'Napoleonic' era / Joanna de Groot -- Patriotism, painting and the Portuguese empire during the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars / Foteini Vlachou.
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