
Rethinking the Age of Revolution
Michael McDonnell(Editor)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 14. March 2017
Book
Hardback
148 pages
978-1-138-71504-2 (ISBN)
Description
In the last twenty years, scholars have rushed to re-examine revolutionary experiences across the Atlantic, through the Americas, and, more recently, in imperial and global contexts. While Revolution has been a perennial favourite topic of national historians, a new generation of historians has begun to eschew traditional foundation narratives and embrace the insights of Atlantic and transnational history to re-examine what is increasingly called 'the Age of Revolution'. This volume raises important questions about this new turn, and contributors pay particular attention to the hidden peoples and forces at work in this Revolutionary world. From Indian insurgents in Columbia and the Andes, to the terror exercised on the sailors and soldiers of imperial armies, and from Dutch radicals to Senegalese chiefs, these contributions reveal a new social history of the Age of Revolution that has sometimes been deliberately obscured from view. This book was originally published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
447 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-71504-2 (9781138715042)
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Michael A. McDonnell is Associate Professor of History at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of numerous articles, essays, and books on the American Revolution and early American history, including The Politics of War (2007), Remembering the Revolution (2013), and Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America (2015).
Content
Introduction: Rethinking the Age of Revolution 1. "The sole owners of the land": Empire, war, and authority in the Guajira Peninsula, 1761-1779 2. Militarizing the Atlantic World: Army discipline, coerced labor, and Britain's commercial empire 3. "The supreme power of the people": Local autonomy and radical democracy in the Batavian revolution (1795-1798) 4. Rethinking Africa in the Age of Revolution: The evolution of Jean-Baptiste-Leonard Durand's Voyage au Senegal 5. Sovereignty disavowed: the Tupac Amaru revolution in the Atlantic world