Abstract
The Citizenship Experiment: Contesting the Limits of Civic Equality and Participation in the Age of Revolutions, by René Koekkoek
Highlights
A book-length study that makes a major and much needed contribution to thinking about the crucial—yet mostly eschewed—role that SaintDomingue played in shaping the modern “concept of the citizen,” not just for the countries with a direct colonial relationship to the island (France, Spain, the United States) or with aspirations to it (Britain), and for a country such as the Netherlands
René Koekkoek argues that the Netherlands largely determined its own political course of action based on its considerations of how “the citizenship experiment” had played itself out in France, the United States, and, decisively, in Saint-Domingue/ Haiti “during the 1790s,” when “this Atlantic family of overlapping conceptions of citizenship was put into question on virtually all accounts” (p. 7)
Koekkoek’s book asks why Europeans should care about the implicated histories of the French Terror and the Haitian Revolution when deliberating on their own histories of the concepts of “freedom” and “citizenship.”
Summary
Via free access book reviews ment ran the risk of the instability associated with the French Terror (p. 220). A book-length study that makes a major and much needed contribution to thinking about the crucial—yet mostly eschewed—role that SaintDomingue played in shaping the modern “concept of the citizen,” not just for the countries with a direct colonial relationship to the island (France, Spain, the United States) or with aspirations to it (Britain), and for a country such as the Netherlands.
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