The memoir of general Toussaint Louverture / translated and edited by Philippe Girard.
2014
F1923.T69 A313 2014eb
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Title
The memoir of general Toussaint Louverture / translated and edited by Philippe Girard.
ISBN
9780199937233 (electronic bk.)
0199937230 (electronic bk.)
9780199937226
0199937222
0199937230 (electronic bk.)
9780199937226
0199937222
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Language
English
Language Note
English and French parallel text.
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
40023466547
Call Number
F1923.T69 A313 2014eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)868068486
Summary
Here is an annotated, scholarly, multilingual edition of the only lengthy text personally written by Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture: the memoirs he wrote shortly before his death in the French prison of Fort de Joux. The translation is based on an original copy in Louverture's hand never before published. Historian Philippe Girard begins with an introductory essay that retraces Louverture's career as a slave, rebel, and governor. Girard provides a detailed narrative of the last year of Louverture's life, and analyzes the significance of the memoirs and letters from a historical and.
Note
Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction
Preface to the transcript and English translation
Map of place names mentioned in memoir
Original transcript and English translation
Memoire du General Toussaint Louverture: Transcript
Memoire du General Toussaint Louverture: English translation.
Preface to the transcript and English translation
Map of place names mentioned in memoir
Original transcript and English translation
Memoire du General Toussaint Louverture: Transcript
Memoire du General Toussaint Louverture: English translation.
Source of Description
Print version record.
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Includes
Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803. Mémoires du général Toussaint Louverture.
Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803. Mémoires du général Toussaint Louverture. English.
Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803. Mémoires du général Toussaint Louverture. English.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803. Memoir of general Toussaint Louverture
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