How the History of Empires Has Evolved Over the Last 50 Years?

Sadeer: Evolution from the history of a single empire, normally the British Empire, to the history of empires more broadly and comparatively is a big and significant development. When I first approached this subject of writing about the Haitian Revolution, my first thing was to look at what had been written about it in France. And for a long time, that story had been told by mainly French metropolitan historians who saw events in the late 18th, late 18th,. early 19th century as broadly reactive or derivative. In other words, you had big events happening in France, the revolution, and Haiti in so far as it was talked about was an aftershock, a tremor...