The age of revolutions : and the generations who made it /

Perl-Rosenthal, Nathan, 1982-

The age of revolutions : and the generations who made it / Nathan Perl-Rosenthal. - First edition. - vii, 544 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A hierarchical world: Europe and the Americas -- The First Imperial Crisis: Eastern North America -- To the American Revolution: Eastern North America -- Tupac Amaru's Revolution: Peru, Cuzco and the Andes -- News of war: Europe -- Top-down Revolutions: Netherlands, United States -- Revolution in France: Paris -- Crowds and clubs: Paris and the Provinces -- Slaying slavery: St. Domingue -- Ruins and reconstruction: the Atlantic World -- Republicanism's limits: United States and Genoese Republic -- A new social order: United States, South America -- Haitian lives: North America and the Caribbean -- Cultural transformation: Europe -- Napoleonic worlds: France, Eastern Europe, Netherlands -- Louis-Augustin Bosc's Journeys: France and North America -- Nation and race: United States, Haiti -- Promulgating constitutions: South America -- Nations Under arms: Spanish America.

"The age of Atlantic revolutions-a six-decade period that packed in the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions, the independence of Spanish-speaking Latin America, and a host of lesser-known upheavals-transformed Europe and the Americas, and eventually the globe. Before 1765, most of Europe and the Americas were under the rule of monarchies and empires, and the institution of slavery existed in every jurisdiction. In the ensuing decades, empires were shattered, hierarchies were toppled, new independent states arose, republican forms of government spread widely, and new abolitionist movements arose and, sometimes, triumphed. The modern world owes its basic political complexion to the Atlantic revolutions. But ever since, historians have debated just how radical these changes truly were and how they truly came about"--

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Revolutions--History--18th century.
History, Modern--18th century.
Revolutions--History--19th century.


United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.
Haiti--History--Revolution, 1791-1804.

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