Robert L. Paquette

Robert Louis (Robert) Paquette (born 1951) is an American historian, Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History at Hamilton College, and co-founder of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization.^[1] He is particularly known for his work on the history of slavery in Cuba.^[2][3]

Life and work

Paquette obtained his BA cum laude in 1973 from the Bowling Green State University, and his PhD with honors in 1982 from the University of Rochester.

In 1994 he was appointed Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History at Hamilton College. One of the controversies at Hamilton College was that Paquette complained when an independent student group brought Annie Sprinkle an actress and former porn-star, as a speaker.^[4] Paquette later led an attempt to create the Alexander Hamilton Center on campus, but it was unsuccessful.^[5] In 2008 Paquette cofounded an independed Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization.

In 2005 Paquette was awarded the Mary Young Award for distinguished achievement by the University of Rochester.

Selected publications

• Paquette, Robert L., Sugar is made with blood: the conspiracy of La Escalera and the conflict between empires over slavery in Cuba. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1988.
• Paquette, Robert L., and Stanley L. Engerman, eds. The Lesser Antilles in the age of European expansion. University Press of Florida, 1996.
• Engerman, Stanley L., Seymour Drescher, and Robert L. Paquette, eds. Slavery. Oxford University Press, 2001.

Articles, a selection:

• Paquette, Robert L. "Social history update: slave resistance and social history." Journal of Social History (1991): 681-685.
• Paquette, Robert L. "Revolutionary Saint Domingue in the making of territorial Louisiana." A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean (1997): 204-25.

References

External links

• Professor Anthony Culyer at york.ac.uk