The World of the Haitian Revolution

An edited collection gathering major scholars around Saint-Domingue and Haiti to examine the revolution from multiple disciplinary and regional perspectives. The volume's methodological through-line, particularly in Geggus's contributions, warns against reducing the revolution to a single explanatory key — whether marronage, Vodou, African cultural imports, or heroic leadership — and instead reads it as a convergence of plantation crisis, political contingency, and Atlantic pressures.