The Cambridge history of the age of the Atlantic revolutions. Volume 1, The Enlightenment and the British colonies / Wim Klooster.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Klooster, Wim, editor.

Series:

The Cambridge History of the Age of the Atlantic Revolutions Series

Cambridge History of the Age of the Atlantic Revolutions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Revolutions--History--18th century.

Revolutions.

Social change--History--18th century.

Social change.

Revolutions--History--19th century.

Social change--History--19th century.

History, Modern--18th century.

History, Modern.

History, Modern--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 564 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Volume I offers an introduction to the Enlightenment, which served as the shared background for virtually all revolutionary turmoil, and the American Revolution, which inaugurated the Age of Revolutions. Beginning with a thorough introduction, the volume covers international rivalry, the importance of slavery, and the reformist mind-set that prevailed on the eve of the revolutionary era. It addresses the traditional argument on whether the Enlightenment truly caused revolutions, concluding that the reverse is more apt: revolutions helped create the Enlightenment as a body of thought. The volume continues with a regional and thematic assessment of the American Revolution, revealing how numerous groups in British America - including Black and indigenous people - pursued their own agendas and faced interests at odds with the principles of the revolution.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Series information

Title page

Imprints page

Contents

List of Figures

List of Maps

List of Contributors to Volume I

Preface

Introduction

Rights

Sovereignty and Public Opinion

Democracy

Women

Economic Equality

Violence

Royalism

Counterrevolution and Banditry

International Dimensions

The Realm of Freedom

Part I Enlightenment and Culture

1 Enlightenment and the American Revolution

The North American Context of Enlightenment

Nature

Progress

Reason

Revolution

2 Enlightenment and the French Revolution

The Anglo-Dutch Future

Renaissance, Reformation, and the Enlightenment

The Radicalization of the Enlightenment

Entwinement

3 Enlightenment and the Ibero-American Revolutions

Enlightened Absolutism

Variations and Contradictions

The Iberian Monarchies

Ilustrados and Iluminados at a Time of Multiple Identities

Enlightenment and Liberalism

Revolutionary Aims and Limitations

Conclusion

4 Cultural Practices and Revolutions, c. 1760-1825

Eighteenth-Century Cultural Practice

Cultural Practices Causing Revolutions

Revolutions Changing Cultural Practices

Two New Paradigms

Part II The British Colonies

5 The Revolution in British America: General Overview

How Did All This Happen?

Phase One: The Seven Years' War in America

Phase Two: The Colonial Rebellion

Phase Three: The American Settlement

6 The Myth of ''Salutary Neglect'': Empire and Revolution in the Long Eighteenth Century

Origins of the Idea of Salutary Neglect

Military and Legal Support for Colonies and Corporations

The Limits of ''Free Trade''

Glorious Revolution, Political Reforms, and the (Still) Limited Power of Elected Assemblies in the Eighteenth Century.

7 The British Atlantic on the Eve of American Independence

Entanglement

Exchange and Change

The Unstable Stasis of the Atlantic System

The Desire for Continued Autonomy

8 Cities and Citizenship in Revolution

The Search for Citizenship

The Expansion of Citizenship and the Question of Self-Rule

Republicanizing Cities

9 The Other British Colonies

From the Seven Years' War to the American Revolution

The War of American Independence

Loyalism

The Caribbean and the French Revolution

A Settler Society in the North

Conclusion: The Centrality of Empire

10 The Participation of France and Spain

Revolt: April 1775-July 1776

Revolution: July 1776-July 1778

Transatlantic War: July 1778-June 1779

Global War: June 1779-September 1783

11 Britain, Ireland, and the American Revolution, c. 1763-1785

Ireland

Britain

Conclusions

12 A Contest of Wills: The Spectrum and Experience of Political Violence in the American Revolution

Intimidative and Catalytic Violence

Regular and Logistical Violence

The Militias' War and Retaliatory Violence

13 Recovering Loyalism: Opposition to the American Revolution as a Good Idea

Revolutionary Origins: Partisan Chronology and Geography

Loyalism and War

Internationalizing and Personalizing Civil War: Indigenous, Settler, and Black Loyalism

Loyalist Diaspora

Transnational Loyalists and Distorted National Legacies

14 White Women and the American Revolution

Eighteenth-Century Women and Atlantic Trade

Women on the Eve of the Revolution and the Politicization of the Household

Choosing Sides

On the Homefront

New Republican Government and Women's Citizenship

White Women and Partisan Politics

Legacy of the Revolution for Women

15 Blacks in the British Colonies

Before the Revolutions.

From Dunmore in Virginia to Dessalines in Gonaïves

Aftermath

16 Life, Land, and Liberty: The Native Americans' Revolution

Neutrality to Conflict

Wars of Independence in Indian Country

The Continuing Revolution in Indian Country

17 Shaping the Constitution

The Foundations of Union

Independence and the First American Union

War and the Dissolution of Union

Reforming the Union

A More Perfect Union

18 Reform and Rebellion in Spanish America at the Time of the American Revolution

Spanish America under Bourbon Rule

The Rebellion of Quito

Rebellion in Peru and Upper Peru

The Comunero Rebellion in New Granada

Connections and Comparisons

19 International Warfare and the Non-British Caribbean

Procuring War Supplies

Warfare Afloat and Ashore

Food Shortages and Marronage

Free People of Color

20 Interpreting a Symbol of Progress and Regression: European Views of America's Revolution and Early Republic, 1780-1790

Political Progress: Human Freedom, Human Rights, and Constitutional Government

Economic Progress: Commerce, Equality, and the Social Role of Women

Cultural Progress: Education, Religious Tolerance, and Intellectual Freedom

The Moral Progress of Human Virtue: Exemplary People and Enlightened Leaders

The Regressive Realities of American Slavery and Racism

The Regressive Realities of America's Economic Inequalities

Conclusion: The Unending American Contradictions of Progress and Regression

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781108691628

1108691625

9781108626941

1108626947

9781108567671

1108567673