Also known as: Jeremy D. Popkin, A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution, Popkin Concise History
Last updated: April 16, 2026
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.
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Jeremy D. Popkin. "A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution." Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. Rasin.ai, https://rasin.ai/connections/sources/popkin-concise-history. Accessed 2026-05-05.