The Haitian Revolution may have galvanized subjects of French empire in the Americas and Africa struggling to define freedom and 'Frenchness' for themselves, but Lorelle Semley reveals that this event was just one moment in a longer struggle of women and men of color for rights under the French colonial regime. Through political activism ranging from armed struggle to literary expression, these colonial subjects challenged and exploited promises in French Republican rhetoric that should have contradicted the continued use of slavery in the Americas and the introduction of exploitative labor...

This book investigates the entangled transformations of Russia's Muslim communities from the late eighteenth century through to the First World War.

At last a history that explains how indigenous dispossession and survival underlay and shaped the birth of Australian democracy.