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Recent Essays on the Haitian Revolution
A. In English
- C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins (1938)
- Michel Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995)
- Thomas Ott, The Haitian Revolution, 1789-1804 (1973)
- Susan Buck-Morss, Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (2009)
- David Patrick Geggus and Norman Fiering (eds), The World of the Haitian Revolution (2009)
- Sibylle Fischer, Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (20040
- Carolyn Fick, The Making of Haiti: The Haitian Revolution from Below (1990)
- David Geggus, Haitian Revolutionary Studies (2002)
- Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (2004)
- John D. Garrigus, “White Jacobins/Black Jacobins: Bringing the Haitian and French Revolutions Together in the Classroom”. French Historical Studies 23 (2000), 259-75
- Laurent Dubois and John D. Garrigus, Slave Revolution in the Caribbean 1789-1804:A Brief History with Documents (2006)
- Jeremy D. Popkin, Facing Revolution: Eyewitness Accounts of the Haitian Insurrection (2007)
- Nick Nesbitt, Universal Emanticipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment (2008)
- Doris L. Garraway (ed), Tree of Liberty: Cultural Legacies of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (2008)
- William B. Cohen, The French Encounter with Africans: White Reponses to Blacks, 1530-1880 (2003)
- Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War :The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution (2009), Matthew J. Clavin
- On the Impact of the Haitian Revolution
- David Geggus, The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (2002)
- Robin Blackburn, The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776-1848 (1989)
- Eugene D. Genovese, From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World (1992)
- David Patrick Geggus and Norman Fiering (eds), The World of the Haitian Revolution (2009)
B. In French
- Yves Benot, La Révolution française et la fin des colonies (1789-1794) ( 2004)
- Yves Benot, Rétablissement de l’esclavage dans les colonies françaises 1802. Aux origines d’Haïti, Ruptures et continuités de la politique coloniale française (1800-1830) (2003)
- Marcel Dorigny and Pascal Blanchard, “Aux origines: l’independence d’Haiti et son occultation,” in La République coloniale by Nicolas Bancel, Pascal Blanchard and Françoise Vergès
- Aime Cesaire, Toussaint Louverture : La Révolution française et le problème colonial (2000)
- Pierre Pluchon, Toussaint Louverture: De L’esclavage au pouvoir (1979)
- Pierre Pluchon, Toussaint Louverture : Un révolutionnaire noir d’Ancien régime (2004)
- Leon-Francois Hoffmann, Le negre romantique (1973)
2. Recommended Websites
- Haitian Revolution
- The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804): A Different Route to Emancipation (article, Prof. Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky)
A. Books on Haiti’s Cultural, Political and Social History
- Joan Dayan, Haiti, History and the Gods(1995)
- David Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier: Race, Colour and National Independence in Haiti (1979, 1988, 1996)
- J. Michael Dash, Culture and Customs of Haiti (2008)
- J. Michael Dash and Charles Arthur, A Haiti Anthology: Libete (1999)
