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Revolutions in the Atlantic world : a comparative history / Wim Klooster.
LIBRA E18.82 .K55 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Klooster, Wim, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Revolutions--America--History--18th century.
- Revolutions.
- Revolutions--America--History--19th century.
- Revolutions--Cross-cultural studies.
- Sovereignty--Cross-cultural studies.
- Sovereignty.
- History.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
- United States.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.
- France.
- Haiti--History--Revolution, 1791-1804.
- Haiti.
- Latin America--History--Wars of Independence, 1806-1830.
- Latin America.
- America.
- Genre:
- Cross-cultural studies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 253 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- New edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- Within just a half century, the American, French, Haitian, and Spanish American Revolutions transformed the Atlantic world. This book analyzes these events through a comparative lens, offering insights into the forces behind the many conflicts in the Atlantic world in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Delving into the environments in which these revolutions occurred, Klooster debunks the popular myth that the "people" rebelled against a small ruling elite, arguing instead that the revolutions were civil wars in which all classes fought on both sides. Nor was democracy a goal or product of these revolutions, which usually spawned authoritarian polities. This new edition covers the latest historiographical trends in the study of the Atlantic world. Drawing on fresh research-such as primary documents and extant secondary literature-Klooster ultimately concludes that the Enlightenment was the ideological inspiration for the Age of Revolutions, although not its cause. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Empires at war
- Civil war in the British Empire : the American Revolution
- The war on privilege and dissension : the French Revolution
- From prize colony to black independence : the revolution in Haiti
- Multiple routes to sovereignty : the Spanish American revolutions
- The revolutions compared : causes, patterns, legacies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781479875955
- 1479875953
- 9781479857173
- 1479857173
- OCLC:
- 974992200
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