Day 24 in Haitian Heritage Month: The “Indemnity” of 1825: The Haitian Receipts, by Celucien JOSEPH
Day 24 in Haitian Heritage Month: The “Indemnity” of 1825: The Haitian Receipts
May 25, 2022 Dr. Celucien Joseph
Day 24 in Haitian Heritage Month: The “Indemnity” of 1825: The Haitian Receipts
Hello, Columbus, by Pooja BHATIA
Hello, Columbus
Pooja Bhatia
Last weekend, the New York Times published an extraordinary investigation into one of history’s most odious debts: the payments Haiti made to French slaveholders in return for recognising its independence. The idea of compensating slaveholders for the loss of ‘their property’ – i.e.
The Times, Haiti, and the treacherous bridge linking history and journalism, by Jon ALLSOP
The Times, Haiti, and the treacherous bridge linking history and journalism
By Jon ALLSOP
van der Zwan on Hyman, 'Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink' and Krippner, 'Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance' and Ott, 'When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for an Investors' Democracy'
Louis Hyman. Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012. 392 S. ISBN 978-0-691-15616-3.Greta R. Krippner. Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. xv + 222 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-06619-9.Julia C. Ott. When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for an Investors' Democracy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011. 313 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-05065-5.
Rogers on Mann, 'Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence'
Bruce H. Mann. Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. viii + 344 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-00902-8.
Reviewed by Patricia L. Rogers (Department of History, Western Michigan University) Published on H-SHEAR (September, 2004)
A "High and Improved State"?: Debt and the New Republic
Hermann on Finn, 'The Character of Credit: Personal Debt in English Culture, 1740-1914'
Margot C. Finn. The Character of Credit: Personal Debt in English Culture, 1740-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii + 362 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-82342-5.
Reviewed by Robin Hermann (Department of History, Washington University in St. Louis) Published on H-Albion (August, 2004)
Questioning Economic Modernity
