Stimulating; incisive; insightful; sometimes revisionist; this volume is required reading for historians of comparative colonialism in an age of revolution." ―Choice[An] eminently original and intellectually exciting book." ―William and Mary QuarterlyThis volume examines several slave societies in the Greater Caribbean to illustrate the pervasive and multi-layered impact of the revolutionary age on the region. Built precariously on the exploitation of slave labor; organized according to the doctrine of racial discrimination; the plantation colonies were particularly vulnerable to the message of the French Revolution; which proved all the more potent because it coincided with the emergence of the antislavery movement in the Atlantic world and interacted with local traditions of resistance among the region's slaves; free coloreds; and white colonists.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Good Quick Read on MitchellBy 1234This book provides a fair assessment of the contributions Billy Mitchell made to aviation. There is no idol worship in this book; and it plainly demonstrates his role more as a publicist and agitator for aviation than an innovator or revolutionary theorist. At the same time; Hurley frames Mitchell's actions in the larger sociopolitical and military context; demonstrating clearly the path to Mitchell's selfdestruction.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy rogerGreat0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Four StarsBy prmlawNice; quick read.
