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The article discusses Manuel Covo's book, "Entrepôt of Revolutions: Saint-Domingue, Commercial Sovereignty, and the French-American Alliance," which examines the role of merchants in solidifying and compromising the French-American Alliance during the Age of Revolutions. The book focuses on Captain Joshua Barney's involvement in smuggling, the slave trade, and providing provisions to freed Blacks in French Saint-Domingue. Covo argues that imperial trade, rather than democratic ideals, drove the Age of Revolutions, and explores the commercial strategies of merchants and the impact of the French-American Alliance on French colonial trade in the Caribbean. The book also examines the transition from the Exclusif to the Exclusif mitigée, a French policy that regulated trade with the French colonies overseas. Additionally, the article mentions Rafael Covo's book, "Entrepôt of Revolutions: The United States and the French Imperial Imaginary," which explores the failures of the French Revolutionary government's legislation on colonial trade in the face of U.S. neutrality, the Jay Treaty, and Toussaint Louverture's autonomous commercial policies in Saint-Domingue. The author argues that imperial trade was a driving force behind the Age of Revolution, and while the book examines local, national, and regional levels, it pays less attention to the intra-imperial level. The book also discusses the absence of the term "capitalism" and its unclear place in the long history of colonial capitalism. Overall, the book is a stimulating [Extracted from the article] |
