A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution

The clearest synthetic overview of the Haitian Revolution in a single volume, covering colonial Saint-Domingue, the 1791 uprisings, republican emancipation, Toussaint's state, the independence war, and the difficult settlement after 1804. Popkin insists the revolution should not be flattened into a unified movement, treating it as a collision of projects — enslaved insurgents, free people of color, white colonists, French republicans, foreign occupiers, and military elites whose interests only partially aligned — making the text an especially useful complement to more specialized or one-sided interpretive works.