Friends of freedom : the rise of social movements in the age of Atlantic revolutions / Micah Alpaugh, University of Central Missouri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alpaugh, Micah, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jacobins--History.

Jacobins.

Liberty--History--18th century.

Liberty.

Social movements--International cooperation.

Social movements.

Social movements--History.

Political clubs--History.

Political clubs.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Influence.

United States.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Social aspects.

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Influence.

France.

Europe--Politics and government--1789-1900.

Europe.

Atlantic Ocean Region--Politics and government--History.

Atlantic Ocean Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 502 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

From the Sons of Liberty to British reformers, Irish patriots, French Jacobins, Haitian revolutionaries and American Democrats, the greatest social movements of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions grew as part of a common, interrelated pattern. In this new transnational history, Micah Alpaugh demonstrates the connections between the most prominent causes of the era, as they drew upon each other's models to seek unprecedented changes in government. As Friends of Freedom, activists shared ideas and strategies internationally, creating a chain of broad-based campaigns that mobilized the American Revolution, British Parliamentary Reform, Irish nationalism, movements for religious freedom, abolitionism, the French Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, and American party politics. Rather than a series of distinct national histories, Alpaugh shows how these movements jointly responded to the Atlantic trends of their era to create a new way to alter or overthrow governments: mobilizing massive social movements.

Contents:

The American Revolution ignites social movements

The Sons of Liberty and the creation of a movement model

From boycott mobilization to the American Revolution

Wilkes, liberty, and the Anglo American crisis

The British Association movement and parliamentary reform

The Irish Volunteers and militant reform

Religious freedom, political liberty, and Protestant Dissenter civil rights

British abolitionism and the broadening of social movements

The French Revolution radicalizes social movements

The genesis of the French Jacobins

French revolutionary polarization and the coming of the Haitian Revolution

The French Jacobin network in power

Radicalizing club life in 1790s Britain

The United Irishmen in an Atlantic crosswind

The French Revolution and the making of the American Democratic Party

From revolutionary committees to American electoral party politics.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Nov 2021).

ISBN:

1-009-02757-3

1-009-02776-X

1-009-02611-9

OCLC:

1283855060