Le Syllabus


This syllabus inventories references mentioned during the seminar sessions. This page is placed under the editorial responsibility of Arielle Alterwaite, Graduate Student, History Department, University of Pennsylvania. Email: ariellea[@]sas.upenn.edu 


Session 1. Malick Ghachem (Massachussetts Institute of Technology) "The Debt and the Indemnity."

Bosma, Ulbe. 2023. The World Of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674293311.

 

DeJean, Joan. "Les Capitalistes: The First Capitalists and the Debt Created by Haitian Slavery." Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics 4, no. 1 (2023): 44-72. https://doi.org/10.1353/cap.2023.a899271.

 

Desan, Christine. 2014. Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198709572.001.0001.


Flandreau, Marc. 2016. Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange, A Financial History of Victorian Science. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press. 

https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226360584.001.0001.


Flandreau, Marc, Olivier Accominotti, Riad Rezzik, and Frederic Zumer. "Black Man's Burden, White Man's Welfare: Control, Devolution and Development in the British Empire, 1880–1914." European Review of Economic History 14, no. 1 (2010): 47-70. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1361491609990025.

 

Flandreau, Marc. "Pari Passu Lost and Found: The Origins of Sovereign Bankruptcy, 1798-1873." Institute for New Economic Thinking, no. 186 (2022): 1-67. https://doi.org/10.36687/inetwp186.

 

Ghachem, Malick. 2012. The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139050173.


Ghachem, Malick. "The Real Intervention Haiti Needs." Foreign Policy, September 14, 2023. https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/09/14/haiti-crisis-intervention-gangs-colonialism-france-us-history-monetary-policy/.

 

Helleiner, Eric. 2014. Forgotten foundations of Bretton Woods: International Development and the Making of the Postwar Order. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 

https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501704376/forgotten-foundations-of-bretton-woods/

 

Oosterlink, Kim, Ugo Panizza, Mark Weidemaier, and Mitu Gulati. "The Odious Haitian Independence Debt." Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory, no. 2021-40 (2021): 1-36. https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3894623.

 

Orain, Arnaud. 2018. La politique du merveilleux: Une autre histoire du Système de Law (1695-1795).Paris, France: Fayard. 

https://www.fayard.fr/livre/la-politique-du-merveilleux-9782213705880/.

 

Spang, Rebecca. 2015. Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674975422.


Velde, François. “French Public Finance between 1683 and 1726.” Chapter. In Government Debts and Financial Markets in Europe, edited by Fausto Piola Caselli. London, UK: Routledge, 2008. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315652825. 


Velde, François. "Government Equity and Money: John Law's System in 1720." The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, no. 2003-31 (2003). https://www.chicagofed.org/publications/working-papers/2003/2003-31.

 

Velde, François. “Was John Law's System a Bubble? The Mississippi Bubble Revisited.” Chapter. In The Origins and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present, edited by Jeremy Atack and Larry Neal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 

https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511757419.005


“Haiti: Reparations & Restitution Symposium.” University of Miami, Miami, FL, March 24, 2023.  https://events.miami.edu/event/haiti_reparations_restitution_symposium_5165. 

Session 2. Arielle Alterwaite (University of Pennsylvania) "Counterfeit Empire."



Bloch, Marc. 1954. Esquisse d'une histoire monétaire de l'Europe, Paris: A. Colin.

Google (access will vary depending on location)


Gaillard, Gusti-Klara. "Dette de l'indépendance d'Haïti (1825). Canonnière et huis clos pour une rançon néocoloniale" In Haïti-France: Les chaînes de la dette: Le rapport Mackau (1825), edited by Marcel Dorigny, et al. Montréal, Canada: Les Éditions du CIDIHCA, 2021.

 

Gaffield, Julia. “The Racialization of International Law after the Haitian Revolution: The Holy Sea and National Sovereignty.” The American Historical Review 125, no. 3 (2020): 841-868. 

https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhz1226

 

Gonzalez, Johnhenry. 2019. Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 

https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300245554


Feinig, Jakob. 2022. Moral Economies of Money: Politics and the Monetary Constitution of Society. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503633452

 

Flandreau, Marc. 2003. The Glitter of Gold: France, Bimetallism, and the Emergence of the International Gold Standard, 1848-1873. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 

https://doi.org/10.1093/0199257868.001.0001

 

Flandreau, Marc, and Nathan Sussman. 2005. “Old Sins: Exchange Rate Clauses and European Foreign Lending in the 19th Century.” in Barry Eichengreen (ed.), Ricardo Hausmann (ed.), Other People's Money: Debt Denomination and Financial Instability in Emerging Market Economies, Chicago: Chicago University Press, https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226194578.003.0007

 

Grubb, Farley. 2023. The Continental Dollar: How the American Revolution Was Financed with Paper Money. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press. 

https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226826042.001.0001

 

Hudson, Peter James. 2017. Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 

https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226459257.001.0001

 

Konove, Andrew. “In Search of a Decent Coin: The Value of Small Change in Bourbon Spanish America.” Colonial Latin America Review 30, no. 4 (2021): 589-610. 

https://doi.org/10.1080/10609164.2021.1996996

 

Mihm, Stephen. 2007. A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men and the Making of the United States. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 

https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674041011

 

Pravilova, Ekaterina. 2023. The Ruble: A Political History. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 

https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197663714.001.0001

 

René, Jean Alix. 2019. Haiti après l’esclavage: Formation de l’Etat et culture politique Populaire (1804-1846). Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Société Haïtienne d'Histoire, de Géographie et de Géologie. 

 

Sargent, Thomas, and François Velde. 2002. The Big Problem of Small Change. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400851621

 

Spang, Rebecca L.. 2016. Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674975422

Session 3. Michael Kwass (Johns Hopkins) “Penelope’s Shroud.”



Accominotti, Olivier, and Marc Flandreau. “Bilateral Treates and the Most-Favored-Nation Clause: The Myth of Trade Liberalization in the Nineteenth Century.” World Politics 60, no. 2 (2008): 147-188.

https://doi.org/10.1353/wp.0.0010


Beauvois, Frédérique. “L’indemnité de Saint-Domingue: ‘Dette d’indépendance’ ou rançon de l’esclavage’?” French Colonial History 10, no. 1 (2009): 109-124. 

https://doi.org/10.1353/fch.0.0021


Blancpain, François. 2001. Un siècle de relations financières entre Haïti et la France (1825-1922). Paris, France: L'Harmattan.

https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/livre-un_siecle_de_relations_financieres_entre_haiti_et_la_france_1825_1922_francois_blancpain-9782747508520-3634.html


Brière, Jean-François. 2008. Haïti et la France: Le rêve brisé. Paris, France: Karthala.

https://www.karthala.com/1917-haiti-et-la-france-1804-1848-le-reve-brise-9782845869684.html


Case, Holly. 2018. “The Quiet Revolution: Consuls and the International System in the Nineteenth Century.” In The Balkans as Europe: 1821-1914, edited by Timothy Snyder and Katherine Younger, 110-138. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. 

https://doi.org/10.1017/9781787442290.008


Casimir, Jean. 2020. The Haitians: A Decolonial History. Translated by Laurent Dubois. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press. 

https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660486.003.0001


Covo, Manuel. 2022. Entrepôt of Revolutions: Saint-Domingue, Commercial Sovereignty, and the French-American Alliance. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 

https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197626382.001.0001


Daut, Marlene. 2023. Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press.

https://doi.org/10.5149/9781469674766_daut


Délide, Joseph. 2015. L’état haïtien et ses intellectuels: Socio-histoire d’un engagement politique (1801-1860). Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Imprimerie Le Natal. 


Dubois. Laurent. 2012. Haiti: The Aftershocks of History. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books. 


Frary, Lucien. “Russian Consuls and the Greek War of Independence (1821-1831).” Mediterranean Historical Review 28, no. 1 (2013): 46-65. 

https://doi.org/10.1080/09518967.2013.782671


Gaffield, Julia. 2015. Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World: Recognition After Revolution. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press.

https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469625621.001.0001 


Gaillard, Gusti-Klara. “Haïti-France. Permanences, évolutions et incidences d’une pratique de relations inégales au XIXe siècle,” La Révolution française 18, no. 1 (2019): 1-26. 

https://doi.org/10.4000/lrf.2844


Gallagher, John, and Ronald Robinson. “Imperialism of Free Trade.” The Economic History Review 6, no. 1 (1953): 1-15. 

https://doi.org/10.2307/2591017


Goodin, Brett. “The Business, Personality, and Discretionary Power of American Consul in North Africa, 1797-1805.” Huntington Library Quarterly 80, no. 4 (2017): 609-633. 

https://doi.org/10.1353/hlq.2017.0033


Hector, Michel, and Laënnec Hurbon, eds. 2009. Genèse de l’État haïtien (1804-1859). Paris, France: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme. 

https://doi.org/10.4000/books.editionsmsh.9723


Joachim, Benoît. “La reconnaissance d’Haïti par la France (1825): naissance d’un nouveau type de rapports internationaux.” Revue d’histoire modern et contemporaine 22, no. 3 (1975): 369-396. 

https://doi.org/10.3406/rhmc.1975.2324


Kindleberger, Charles. “The Rise of Free Trade in Western Europe, 1820-1875.” Journal of Economic History 35, no. 1 (1975): 20-55. 

https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700094298


Lewis, Mary. “Legacies of French Slave-Ownership, or the Long Decolonization of Saint-Domingue.” History Workshop Journal, no. 83 (2017): 151-75. 

https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbx007


Lewis, Mary. “A Commercial (Neo)Colony? The Role of the Merchant Lobby in France’s Recognition of Haitian Independence.” The Age of Revolutions, June 20 2022. 

https://ageofrevolutions.com/2022/06/20/a-commercial-neocolony-the-role-of-the-merchant-lobby-in-frances-recognition-of-haitian-independence/


Massé, Alexandre. “French Consuls and Philhellenism in the 1820s: Official Positions and Personal Sentiments.” Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 41, no. 1 (2017): 103-118. 

https://doi.org/10.1017/byz.2016.31


Neal, Larry. “The Financial Crisis of 1825 and the Restructuring of the British Financial System.” Economic Research: The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 80, no. 3 (1998): 53-76. 

https://doi.org/10.20955/r.80.53-76


Pahre, Robert. 2007. "Politics and Trade Cooperation in the Nineteenth Century: The Agreeable Customs of 1815-1913." Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511619601


Sheller, Mimi. 2000. Democracy after Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. 


Stieber, Chelsea. 2020. Haiti’s Paper War: Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804-1954. New York, NY: NYU University Press.

https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479802135.001.0001 


Todd, David. “A French Imperial Meridian.” Past & Present 210, no.1 (February 2011): 155-186.

https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtq063 


Todd, David. “Transnational Projects of Empire in France, c. 1815-c. 1870.” Modern Intellectual History 12, no. 2 (2015): 265-293.

https://doi.org/10.1017/s147924431400047x


Todd, David. 2021. A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth-Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

https://doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691171838.001.0001






Session 3. Michael Kwass (Johns Hopkins) “Penelope’s Shroud.”



Accominotti, Olivier, and Marc Flandreau. “Bilateral Treates and the Most-Favored-Nation Clause: The Myth of Trade Liberalization in the Nineteenth Century.” World Politics 60, no. 2 (2008): 147-188.

https://doi.org/10.1353/wp.0.0010


Beauvois, Frédérique. “L’indemnité de Saint-Domingue: ‘Dette d’indépendance’ ou rançon de l’esclavage’?” French Colonial History 10, no. 1 (2009): 109-124. 

https://doi.org/10.1353/fch.0.0021


Blancpain, François. 2001. Un siècle de relations financières entre Haïti et la France (1825-1922). Paris, France: L'Harmattan.

https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/livre-un_siecle_de_relations_financieres_entre_haiti_et_la_france_1825_1922_francois_blancpain-9782747508520-3634.html


Brière, Jean-François. 2008. Haïti et la France: Le rêve brisé. Paris, France: Karthala.

https://www.karthala.com/1917-haiti-et-la-france-1804-1848-le-reve-brise-9782845869684.html


Case, Holly. 2018. “The Quiet Revolution: Consuls and the International System in the Nineteenth Century.” In The Balkans as Europe: 1821-1914, edited by Timothy Snyder and Katherine Younger, 110-138. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. 

https://doi.org/10.1017/9781787442290.008


Casimir, Jean. 2020. The Haitians: A Decolonial History. Translated by Laurent Dubois. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press. 

https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660486.003.0001


Covo, Manuel. 2022. Entrepôt of Revolutions: Saint-Domingue, Commercial Sovereignty, and the French-American Alliance. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 

https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197626382.001.0001


Daut, Marlene. 2023. Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press.

https://doi.org/10.5149/9781469674766_daut


Délide, Joseph. 2015. L’état haïtien et ses intellectuels: Socio-histoire d’un engagement politique (1801-1860). Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Imprimerie Le Natal. 


Dubois. Laurent. 2012. Haiti: The Aftershocks of History. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books. 


Frary, Lucien. “Russian Consuls and the Greek War of Independence (1821-1831).” Mediterranean Historical Review 28, no. 1 (2013): 46-65. 

https://doi.org/10.1080/09518967.2013.782671


Gaffield, Julia. 2015. Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World: Recognition After Revolution. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press.

https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469625621.001.0001 


Gaillard, Gusti-Klara. “Haïti-France. Permanences, évolutions et incidences d’une pratique de relations inégales au XIXe siècle,” La Révolution française 18, no. 1 (2019): 1-26. 

https://doi.org/10.4000/lrf.2844


Gallagher, John, and Ronald Robinson. “Imperialism of Free Trade.” The Economic History Review 6, no. 1 (1953): 1-15. 

https://doi.org/10.2307/2591017


Goodin, Brett. “The Business, Personality, and Discretionary Power of American Consul in North Africa, 1797-1805.” Huntington Library Quarterly 80, no. 4 (2017): 609-633. 

https://doi.org/10.1353/hlq.2017.0033


Hector, Michel, and Laënnec Hurbon, eds. 2009. Genèse de l’État haïtien (1804-1859). Paris, France: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme. 

https://doi.org/10.4000/books.editionsmsh.9723


Joachim, Benoît. “La reconnaissance d’Haïti par la France (1825): naissance d’un nouveau type de rapports internationaux.” Revue d’histoire modern et contemporaine 22, no. 3 (1975): 369-396. 

https://doi.org/10.3406/rhmc.1975.2324


Kindleberger, Charles. “The Rise of Free Trade in Western Europe, 1820-1875.” Journal of Economic History 35, no. 1 (1975): 20-55. 

https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700094298


Lewis, Mary. “Legacies of French Slave-Ownership, or the Long Decolonization of Saint-Domingue.” History Workshop Journal, no. 83 (2017): 151-75. 

https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbx007


Lewis, Mary. “A Commercial (Neo)Colony? The Role of the Merchant Lobby in France’s Recognition of Haitian Independence.” The Age of Revolutions, June 20 2022. 

https://ageofrevolutions.com/2022/06/20/a-commercial-neocolony-the-role-of-the-merchant-lobby-in-frances-recognition-of-haitian-independence/


Massé, Alexandre. “French Consuls and Philhellenism in the 1820s: Official Positions and Personal Sentiments.” Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 41, no. 1 (2017): 103-118. 

https://doi.org/10.1017/byz.2016.31


Neal, Larry. “The Financial Crisis of 1825 and the Restructuring of the British Financial System.” Economic Research: The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 80, no. 3 (1998): 53-76. 

https://doi.org/10.20955/r.80.53-76


Platt, D.C.M., Cinderella's Service: British Consuls Since 1825. Hamden, Conn: Archon Books. 1971.

https://books.google.com/books?id=i0j7-Bxq9NcC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false


Pahre, Robert. 2007. "Politics and Trade Cooperation in the Nineteenth Century: The Agreeable Customs of 1815-1913." Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511619601


Sheller, Mimi. 2000. Democracy after Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. 


Stieber, Chelsea. 2020. Haiti’s Paper War: Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804-1954. New York, NY: NYU University Press.

https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479802135.001.0001 


Todd, David. “A French Imperial Meridian.” Past & Present 210, no.1 (February 2011): 155-186.

https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtq063 


Todd, David. “Transnational Projects of Empire in France, c. 1815-c. 1870.” Modern Intellectual History 12, no. 2 (2015): 265-293.

https://doi.org/10.1017/s147924431400047x


Todd, David. 2021. A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth-Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

https://doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691171838.001.0001


Session 4. Joelle M. Abi-Rached (Harvard University) and Ishac Diwan (Paris School of Economics), "The Economic Legacy of the French Mandate in Lebanon."



Biltoft, Carolyn. 2021. A Violent Peace: Media, Truth, and Power at the League of Nations. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press. 

https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226766560.001.0001

 

Biltoft, Carolyn. “Sundry Worlds within the World: Decentered Histories and Institutional Archives.” Journal of World History 31, no. 4 (2020): 729-760. 

https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2020.0050

 

Brière, Jean-François. 2008. Haïti et la France: Le rêve brisé. Paris, France: Karthala.

https://books.google.com/books?id=i0j7-Bxq9NcC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

Bourmaud, Philippe, Norig Neveu and Chantal Verdeil editors. 2020. Experts et expertise dans les mandats de la société des nations: figures, champs, outils. Paris, France: Presses de l’Inalco. 

https://doi.org/10.4000/books.pressesinalco.37738

 

Brown, Megan. 2022. The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 

https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2f1sm7w

 

Cogneau, Denis., Yannick Dupraz, and Sandrine Mesplé-Somps. “Fiscal Capacity and Dualism in Colonial States: The French Empire 1830–1962.” The Journal of Economic History 81, no. 2 (2021): 441–480. 

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050721000140.

 

Davis, Muriam Haleh. 2022. Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 

https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2vr9cw9


Flandreau, Marc (with collaboration of Olivier Accominotti, Riad Rezzik, Frédéric Zumer), "Black man's burden, white man's welfare: control, devolution and development in the British Empire, 1880–1914," European Review of Economic History, Volume 14, Issue 1, April 2010.


Flandreau, Marc, Norbert Gaillard, and Ugo Panizza. “Conflicts of Interest, Reputation, and the Interwar Debt Crisis: Banksters or Bad Luck?” HEID Working Paper, no. 02 (2010): 1-44.

https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1588031


Gaillard-Pourchet, Gusti-Klara, 1991, Les ressorts des intérêts français en Hai͏̈ti dans l'entre-deux-guerres (1918-1941), PhD Dissertation, Paris 8.


Hudson, Peter James. 2017. Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 

https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226459257.001.0001

 

Huvelin, Paul, 1919, “Que vaut la Syrie?” Congrès français de la Syrie, Section économique et Compte Rendu de la Mission

Française en Syrie (Paris and Marseille: Chambres de Commerce de Marseille, May-September 1919), 5


Issawi, Charles. “Economic Development and Liberalism in Lebanon.” Middle East Journal 18, no. 3 (1964): 279–92.

https://doi.org/10.2307/40201175

 

Jackson, Simon. “Transformative Relief: Imperial Humanitarianism and Mandatory Development in Syria-Lebanon, 1915–1925.” Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 8, no. 2 (2017): 247–68.

https://doi.org/10.1353/hum.2017.0018

 

Jakes, Aaron. 2020. Egypt’s Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crisis of Capitalism. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. 

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503612624

 

Jackson, Simon and Alanna O’Malley. 2018. The Institution of International Order: From the League of Nations to the United Nations. New York, NY: Routledge. 

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315108001

 

Johnson, James Weldon. 1920. Self-Determining Haiti. New York, NY: The Nation. 

 

Landes, David. 1979. Bankers and Pashas: International Finance and Economic Imperialism in Egypt. Cambrdige, MA: Harvard University Press. 

 

Mazower, Mark. 2012. Governing the World: The History of an Idea. London, UK: Penguin Press. 

 

Owen, Roger. “The Political Economy of Grand Liban, 1920-70.” In Essays on the Crisis in Lebanon, edited by Roger Owen, 23–32. London, UK: Ithaca Press, 1976.

 

Pedersen, Susan. 2015. The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 

https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199570485.001.0001

 

Renda, Mary. 2001. Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. 

 

Safieddine, Hicham. 2019. Banking on the State: The Financial Foundations of Lebanon. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503609686

 

Schmidt, Hans. 1995. The United States Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934. Rutgers, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 

 

Seikaly, Sherene. 2015. Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. 

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804796729

 

Session 5. "Debt, Fraud and the Making of Countries, by Damian Clavel: A Book Panel." 


Brown, Matthew. 2006. Adventuring Through Spanish Colonies: Simon Bolivar, Foreign Mercenaries and the Birth of New Nations. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press. 

https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1qp9gdt

 

Brown, Matthew, ed. 2008. Informal Empire in Latin America: Culture, Commerce and Capital. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing. 

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444306613


Clavel, Damian, 2022,  Créer un pays, le royaume de Poyais. Gregor MacGregor, emprunts d’État et fraude financière 1820-1824. Neuchâtel: Alphil.

https://www.alphil.com/livres/1225-1508-creer-un-pays-le-royaume-de-poyais.html#/2-format-e_livre_e_pub_pdf


Chatziioannou, Maria. “Greek Merchant Networks in the Age of Empires (1770-1870).” In Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks: Four Centuries of History, edited by Ina Baghdiantz McCabe, Gelina Harlaftis and Ionna Pepelasis Minoglou. Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers, 2005. 


Chatziioannou, Maria. “War, Crisis and Sovereign Loans: The Greek War of Independence and British Economic Expansion in the 1820s.” The Historical Review/La Revue Historique 10 (2013): 33-56. 

https://doi.org/10.12681/hr.305


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