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Black Spartacus - The Epic Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh
Category: History
The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero Toussaint Louverture The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in August 1791, and culminated a dozen years later in the proclamation of the world's f ...Show more
Black Spartacus : The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Hazareesingh Sudhir
Category: History
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh
Category: History
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize"Black Spartacus is a tour de force: by far the most complete, authoritative and persuasive biography of Toussaint that we are likely to have for a long time . . . An extraordinarily gripping read." --David A. Bell,The GuardianA new interpretation of the life of ...Show more
How the French Think by Sudhir HAZAREESINGH
Category: History
WINNER OF THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE D'IDEES The French: serious and frivolous, charming and infuriating, rational and mystical, pessimistic, pleasure-loving - and perhaps more than any other people, intellectual. This original and entertaining book shows exactly what makes the French so ...French.
How the French Think - An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People by Sudhir Hazareesingh
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Sudhir Hazareesingh's How the French Think is a warm yet incisive exploration of the French intellectual tradition, and its exceptional place in a nation's identity and lifestyle. Why are the French an exceptional nation? Why do they think they are so exceptional? An important reason is that in France i ...Show more
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