by Tim Matthewson
Imprint Praeger
Publication Date 09/2003
Subject American History
Pages 176
Volumes 1
Size 6 1/8x9 1/4
Format Price ISBN ISBN-13
Print $79.95
Price $39.98 from ABC-CLIO: 0-275-98002-2; 978-0-275-98002-3. eBook: Call: 0-313-09348-2; 978-0-313-09348-7
Description
Details the long and troubled history of American relations with Haiti.
Reviews
The last decade has seen a welcome expansion of scholarship on the impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic world. Tim Matthewson's book makes an important contribution to this literature by providing a careful analysis of how political leaders in the United States responded to and sought to shape the course of Caribbean revolution. Organized chronologically through chapters on the Washington, Adams, and Jefferson administrations, the work effectively analyses the strands of thinking that generated varying and at times sharply contradictory policies.
- American Historical Review
In recent years, important studies on the history of Saint Domingue and the Republic of Haiti have rectified, to a great extent, our previous ignorance about many issues related to this always-conflictive Caribbean territory. Tim Matthewson's book constitutes a new effort to shed light upon the foreign policies developed by the first American administrations toward Saint Domingue and Haiti....Haiti is the forgotten member of our continental family. Any book, article, paper, documentary, or film that addresses its history and reality is a priceless contribution, not only to academics, but to the body of knowledge of a nation that has endured two hundred years of isolation from the rest of the world. This is a book for everybody with an interest in the history of the second independent republic of the Western Hemisphere. Hopefully in the near future someone will translate this volume into French and copies will be sent to each public and school library in Haiti.
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ReplyDeleteDear Dr Matthewson,
ReplyDeleteI know it is unlikely that this will reach you and I apologise for not communicating in a more professional way but I can't seem to find any contact details for you. My name is Matthew Webster, and I'm a history undergraduate at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. I'm currently writing my dissertation on the United State's reaction to the Haitian Revolution; mainly it's a policy history study and I'll be comparing the reactions of different administrations by looking at both their policies and the private correspondence of prominent individuals.
I feel that your article 'George Washington's Policy Toward the Haitian Revolution' (1979) would be exceedingly helpful, but unfortunately my institution doesn't have access to it on the Oxford Academic site for some reason. Would it be possible to ask you for a copy?
Please contact me at u15mw17@abdn.ac.uk if that is more convenient for you, and I hope that this request is agreeable to you.
Best wishes, Matthew