Charles Forsdick is James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool.
Christian Høgsbjerg is Teaching Fellow in Caribbean History at University College London's Institute of the Americas.
Robert A. Hill is Research Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Charles Forsdick is James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool.
Christian Høgsbjerg is Teaching Fellow in Caribbean History at University College London's Institute of the Americas.
Robert A. Hill is Research Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Fragments of a Universal History: Global Capital, Mass Revolution, and the Idea of Equality in The Black Jacobins
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Published:January 2017
Nick Nesbitt, 2017. "Fragments of a Universal History: Global Capital, Mass Revolution, and the Idea of Equality in The Black Jacobins", The Black Jacobins Reader, Charles Forsdick, Christian Høgsbjerg
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In this chapter Nick Nesbitt explores the universalism of the Haitian Revolution. For Nesbitt, the Haitian Revolution is key for C. L. R. James in “demonstrating the viability of a vision of world, mass revolution: it offers a successful historical example of the mass-based, anti-imperialist revolutions James hoped for throughout the colonized world.”
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