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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Grüner, Eduardo
• McGlazer, Ramsey[Übersetzer]

Titel

The Haitian Revolution : capitalism, slavery, and counter-modernity

Ist Teil von

• Critical south

Auflage

English edition

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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• Inhaltsverzeichnis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Originally published in Spanish as La oscuridad y las luces : capitalismo, cultura y revolución by Edhasa in 2010. - Includes bibliographical references and index
• The category of slavery and modern racism -- The rebellion of the (slave) masses and the Haitian Revolution -- The disavowed "philosophical revolution" : from Enlightenment thought to the crisis of abstract universalism.
• "It is impossible to understand capitalism without analyzing slavery. Through an analysis of the Haitian Revolution, Grüner examines the impact of slavery on the evolution of modernity in South America, and the way in which this revolution created a 'counter-modernity,' a path on which Latin America and the Caribbean have travelled ever since"--
• In English, translated from the original Spanish