Landscaping Hispaniola
Moreau De Saint-Méry's Border Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4225188 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Cristina Fumagalli (0000-0003-3227-480X, 1Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies. University of Essex. [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 85 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 169-190 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1382-2373 • E-ISSN: 2213-4360 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/13822373-90002428 |
| OpenAlex | W2001090607 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
This article focuses on Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry's Description Topographique et Politique de la partie espagnole de l'Isle Saint-Domingue (1796) and his Description Topographique, Physique, Civile, Politique et Historique de la partie française de l'Isle Saint-Domingue (1797). The Descriptions were both written before the beginning of the French Revolution and the 1791 slave revolt in Saint Domingue but were published when the colonial frontier had been abolished (at least de jure if not de facto) by the 1795 Peace of Basle. Overall, the article argues that the two Descriptions are ultimately committed to the (re)inscription of the colonial frontier but intriguingly oscillate between its erasure and its reinforcement. It begins by focusing on Saint-Méry's territorial projections and appropriative landscaping of the Spanish colony; it highlights the important role played by the border in the racial politics of Hispaniola and then revisits Saint-Mery's border politics on the island in the light of the author's conviction that France should reannex Louisiana, given to Spain in 1762
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Cartography · Colonialism · Ethnology · Frontier · Geography · Hegemony · Humanities · Landscaping · Political science · Politics · SAINT · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |