The age of revolutions : and the generations who made it / Nathan Perl-Rosenthal.
Title:
The age of revolutions : and the generations who made it / Nathan Perl-Rosenthal.
ISBN:
9781541603196
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Basic Books, 2024.
©2024
Physical Description:
vii, 544 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents:
Part I. The weight of the old regime, 1760-1783. A hierarchical world : Atlantic world -- The first imperial crisis : British North America -- To the American revolution : North America -- The revolutions in the Andes : Peru -- Part II. Revolutions, limited, 1778-1798. The news of war : Europe -- The top-down revolutions : Netherlands and the United States -- The revolution begins in Paris : France -- The politics of crowds and clubs : France -- The assault on slavery : Saint-Domingue -- Part III. Mass movements and mass cultures, 1795-1815. Ruins and reconstruction : Atlantic world -- The limits of republicanism : Genoa and the United States -- The new social order emerges : North and South America -- The Haitian State : North America and the Caribbean -- A cultural transformation : Europe -- Part IV. Revolution, fulfilled and failed, 1805-1825. The worlds Napoleon made : Europe -- The journeys of Louis-Augustin Bosc : France and the United States -- The revolutions curtailed : United States and Haiti -- The constitutions promulgated : Spanish America -- The nation under arms : South America -- Conclusion.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
OCLC Number:
on1393440385
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