Revolutionary Currents
Nation Building in the Transatlantic World
Published on 9. February 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
202 pages
978-0-7425-2165-0 (ISBN)
Description
In the Age of Democratic Revolution, countries on both sides of the Atlantic were linked together through trade networks, diplomatic ties, and social interactions. More importantly, however, they also shared a common revolutionary dynamic that oscillated back and forth across the ocean. Revolutionary Currents explores the global crosscurrents and revolutionary ideologies that inspired four great modern revolutions-England's Glorious Revolution of 1688-89, the American Revolution of 1776, the French Revolution in 1789, and the Mexican Revolution in the early 1800s. Michael A. Morrison and Melinda S. Zook bring together noted historians to look at how each nation reshaped these revolutionary traditions, making them their own, and exported them once again. In examining each event, the contributors respond to the historiographical trends of revolutionary ideology, transatlantic cross-fertilzation of ideas, and nation-building. In assessing and analyzing the ideas, traditions, and nationalisms that inspired revolution and nation-building in the modern world, this book breaks new ground in the area of transatlantic history.
Reviews / Votes
This volume will be a valuable contribution to any discussion of the dynamic interplay between the ramifications of historical attempts at nation building and the current march towards globalization. -- Doina Pasca Harsanyi, Central Michigan University Six distinguished historians offer trenchant examinations of nations, nation-building, and nationalism in a work that will act as a catalyst for thinking about these protean subjects. -- Joyce Appleby, UCLA This book will reward graduate and advanced undergraduate students interested in the making of nationalism or Atlantic history. -- Timothy M. Roberts, Bilkent University It is always a pleasure to read work by historians of this caliber. Each essay summarizes the state of its field, while advancing an original interpretation. All the contributors are extremely well-versed in the scholarship of their fields, and each essay includes extensive footnotes that could easily serve as graduate reading lists. The essays are notable for their clarity of writing and analysis, and I think they would be appropriate for an upper-level undergraduate seminar. * H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online * This collection, with its extensive bibliographic notes and usable index, is worth pondering, not only to grasp polity formation in the early modern era but also to find a perspective on current trends. -- Robert P. Gildrie, Austin Peay State UniversityMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
339 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7425-2165-0 (9780742521650)
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Persons
Michael A. Morrison is associate professor of history at Purdue University. He is the author of Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War. He is editor of The Human Tradition in Antebellum America and with James Brewer Stewart coeditor of Race and the Early Republic. He is also coeditor of the Journal of the Early Republic. Melinda S. Zook is associate professor of history at Purdue University and author of Radical Whigs and Conspiratorial Politics in Late Stuart England.
Content
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction: State Formation, Resistance, and the Creation of Revolutionary Traditions in the Early Modern Era
Chapter 3 Chapter One Law, Liberty, and Jury "Ideology": English Transatlantic Revolutionary Traditions
Chapter 4 Chapter Two 1776: The Countercyclical Revolution
Chapter 5 Chapter Three The French Revolution and the Emergence of the Nation Form
Chapter 6 Chapter Four "To Throw off a Tyrannical Government": Atlantic Revolutionary Traditions and Popular Insurgency in Mexico, 1800-1821
Chapter 7 Conclusion: Nations, Revolutions, and the End of History
Chapter 2 Introduction: State Formation, Resistance, and the Creation of Revolutionary Traditions in the Early Modern Era
Chapter 3 Chapter One Law, Liberty, and Jury "Ideology": English Transatlantic Revolutionary Traditions
Chapter 4 Chapter Two 1776: The Countercyclical Revolution
Chapter 5 Chapter Three The French Revolution and the Emergence of the Nation Form
Chapter 6 Chapter Four "To Throw off a Tyrannical Government": Atlantic Revolutionary Traditions and Popular Insurgency in Mexico, 1800-1821
Chapter 7 Conclusion: Nations, Revolutions, and the End of History