Entrepôt of Revolutions

Manuel Covo takes the excellent recent scholarship on Haiti to a new level by showing the centrality of the island nation to the political economy and culture of the 'age of revolution.' This smart, sophisticated, deeply researched, and gracefully written book establishes its author as a leading historian of the French Atlantic. * Marcus Rediker, author of The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom * Manuel Covo's exciting monograph gives us a new picture of the ways in which the Haitian Revolution reshaped the Atlantic world. Covo's convincing research shows that the economic consequences of that upheaval were as important as its impact on slavery. This book will be essential reading not just for scholars of French colonial history and of the Haitian Revolution, but for those working on this period of American history. * Jeremy D. Popkin, author of A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution * Entrepôt of Revolutions is an innovative interpretation of the centrality of commerce to the age of Atlantic revolutions. Through Manuel Covo's engaging narrative, we see how Saint-Domingue was a dynamic site of commercial experimentation, where American, French, and Haitian actors sought to capitalize on republican ruptures and, in the process, shaped the contours of all three revolutions. Exhaustively researched and smartly conceived, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the era. * Ashli White, University of Miami * [A] highly innovative study...[Covo's] main focus is on economic policy and the interplay of economics and politics: he analyses the role that Saint Domingue played as a hub of global capitalism and argues that the economic consequences of the Haitian revolution were every bit as significant as its contribution to political culture. * Alan Forrest, French History * There is no shortage of works on Atlantic empires, economies, or revolutions, and yet Manuel Covo's Entrepôt of Revolutions reframes how we think about all of these things...This is not... a book about only economic debates in the abstract, but one on the complicated realities and shifting networks that defined the era of imperial overthrow in the Americas...The intricacies and changing dynamics of new iterations of the 'triangular trade,'...will be important for any scholar or student interested in the 'rapidly globalizing economy' of the late eighteenth century. * Lindsay Schakenbach Regele, The Americas * Manuel Covo has taken on the Age of Revolutions, successively deconstructing and reconstructing the American, French and Haitian revolutions through the lens of (mostly French) political economy... The book features a wide range of historical actors, geographies and sources in an elegant and effective mix of top-down and bottom-up perspectives. The result of this complexity is a ravishing portrait of historical reality and a deep reflection on the human experience of living through a historic moment...Covo presents us with a healthy and artfully crafted reminder that living through one of the major grand narratives of western historiography was, in all, not always a grand experience. * Tessa de Boer, International Journal of Maritime History * In Entrepôt of Revolutions, Manuel Covo has taken on the Age of Revolutions, successively deconstructing and reconstructing the American, French and Haitian revolutions through the lens of (mostly French) political economy...the book features a wide range of historical actors, geographies and sources in an elegant and effective mix of top-down and bottom-up perspectives. * Tessa de Boer, International Journal of Maritime History * This remarkable book is at once a social history, a history of ideas, and a history of political economy. * Mary Dewhurst Lewis, H-France Forum * Entrepôt of Revolutions is a stimulating and ambitious work and a pleasure to read. Deeply researched and underpinned by a sophisticated multiscale approach, it is sure to become essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the interconnections between the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions. * Pernille Røge, H-France Forum * Covo has produced a truly remarkable transnational history of Saint-Domingue, the United States, and France during the era of Atlantic revolutions. * Jesús G. Ruiz, H-France Forum * No Suitable Quote. * Robert D. Taber, H-France Forum * No Suitable Quote. * Manuel Covo, H-France Forum *