'Silent Participants' of Empire: the O'Rourke sisters of Saint-Domingue, Nantes and Wexford, 1788-1805.
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The history of the eighteenth and nineteenth century has for a long time been a very top down affair - ‘great men’ history, high politics and big events took the focus. It is only in recent decades that we are getting decent and much needed re-analyses of other aspects of society, politics and culture. More recently, we are being given re-appraisals of complicated and divisive histories surrounding slavery and the role of the disadvantaged and marginalized in society.
'Silent Participants' of Empire: the O'Rourke sisters of Saint-Domingue, Nantes and Wexford, 1788-1805.
'Silent Participants' of Empire: the O'Rourke…
'Silent Participants' of Empire: the O'Rourke sisters of Saint-Domingue, Nantes and Wexford, 1788-1805.
The history of the eighteenth and nineteenth century has for a long time been a very top down affair - ‘great men’ history, high politics and big events took the focus. It is only in recent decades that we are getting decent and much needed re-analyses of other aspects of society, politics and culture. More recently, we are being given re-appraisals of complicated and divisive histories surrounding slavery and the role of the disadvantaged and marginalized in society.