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James Alexander Dun - Dangerous Neighbors - 9780812248319 - V9780812248319
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Dangerous Neighbors

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Description for Dangerous Neighbors Hardcover. Dangerous Neighbors shows how the Haitian Revolution permeated early American print culture and had a profound impact on the young nation's domestic politics. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, 9 illlus. BIC Classification: 1KJH; HBJK; HBTV. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 726.

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 news from Saint Domingue with local and national political developments in mind and with the French Revolution and British abolition debates ringing in their ears. In witnessing a French colony experience a revolution of African ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Early American Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812248319
SKU
V9780812248319
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About James Alexander Dun
James Alexander Dun teaches history at Princeton University.

Reviews for Dangerous Neighbors
"Dun has produced a richly textured, elegantly written history. Dangerous Neighbors will stimulate original research by graduate students and scholars of early U.S. history for years to come. This book sets a new standard for research in early American newspapers replete with the racialized language white Americans printed publicly and used in official and personal communications to understand and to ... Read more

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