Hard-earned wisdom for younger scholars: a vicious book review – what Edward Thompson called a “police action review” – can be useful. I’ve had quite a few of these and I do think they ended up making my books more popular, at least with the right people.

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On this date in 1791 Boukman Dutty and Cécile Fatiman led a mass meeting that inaugurated the Haitian Revolution. Haitian artist Jean Richard Coachy's “Ceremonie au Bois Caïman” sees the event through the descending vodou lwa (spirits) .

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A warm welcome to my followers from someone new to Twitter. I will tweet mostly about what is called or past and present, as this is what I read, think, write, publish, and lecture about.

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