"In 1822, the Mary departed Philadelphia and sailed in the direction of the Spanish colony of Puerto Rico. Like most vessels that navigated the Caribbean, the Mary brought together men who had served under a dozen different flags over the years. Unlike most crews, those aboard t…
In 1822, the Mary departed Philadelphia and sailed in the direction of the Spanish colony of Puerto Rico. Like most vessels that navigated the Caribbean, the Mary brought together men who had served under a dozen different flags over the years. Unlike most crews, those aboard th…
This book is about the attempt, during the age of revolutions, to establish new independent republics around the greater Caribbean; the people out to establish these new republics were former solders, not the typical elites; they considered themselves revolutionaries. The questi…
"This book is about the attempt, during the age of revolutions, to establish new independent republics around the greater Caribbean; the people out to establish these new republics were former solders, not the typical elites; they considered themselves revolutionaries. The quest…
"This book is about the attempt, during the age of revolutions, to establish new independent republics around the greater Caribbean; the people out to establish these new republics were former solders, not the typical elites; they considered themselves revolutionaries. The quest…
In Rogue Revolutionaries, Vanessa Mongey revives a lost and fleeting world of cosmopolitan radicalism through the stories of "foreigners of desperate fortune" who sought to ignite revolutions and create their own independent states. Their quest for recognition clashed with the g…