The French Colonial Question 1789 1791

Author : Mitchell Bennett Garrett
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ISBN 13 : 9781332129751
Total Pages : 184 pages
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Download or read book The French Colonial Question 1789-1791 written by Mitchell Bennett Garrett and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The French Colonial Question 1789-1791: Dealings of the Constituent Assembly With Problems Arising From the Revolution in the West Indies Under the direction of the late Professor Ralph C. H. Catterall I began to make a study of Barnave's career in the Constituent Assembly to complete the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. At the outset I was confronted with the necessity of making a rather intensive study of the early revolutionary period in order to give the biographical sketch an adequate historical setting. To compile a narrative of Barnave's daily deeds and speeches without sufficient explanation of what other men were doing and saying around him promised to be an idle undertaking. I needed to estimate Barnave's influence on the actions of the Constituent Assembly. With this task in view, therefore, I turned aside, after a few months of general investigation, to familiarize myself thoroughly with the work of the committee on colonies of which Barnave was reporter and most conspicuous member. My intention was to study afterwards other phases of Barnave's political activity in the same intensive fashion and eventually to gather the results of my investigations into a complete biography. But that biography has now been written by another. The Life of Barnave (Oxford, 1915, 2 vols.) by Miss E. D. Bradby has well-nigh exhausted the subject. Rather than to go gleaning after her I prefer to put together the best of my materials on the colonies and withdraw from the field. The French colonies in the West Indies, with which this study deals, have already attracted the attention of historians. The secondary works listed in my bibliography will indicate what has been done for the period of the Constituent Assembly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.