<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Introduction<br>1 Emperor Dessalines and Post-Revolutionary Dynastic Sovereignty2 President Christophe and Commercial Legitimacy3 King Christophe and the Question of Monarchical Legitimacy4 The Death of a New World Monarch: Regicidal Imaginings in Transatlantic Republican Thought5 Boyer and the Promise or Threat of Republican Governance Conclusion<br>