The age of Atlantic revolution : the fall and rise of a connected world / Patrick Griffin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griffin, Patrick, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Revolutions--Europe--History.

Revolutions.

Atlantic Ocean Region--History--18th century.

Atlantic Ocean Region.

Atlantic Ocean Region--History--19th century.

Europe--History--18th century.

Europe.

Europe--History--1789-1900.

Atlantic Ocean Region--Relations--Europe.

Europe--Relations--Atlantic Ocean Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 376 p.) : ill.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Conn. : Yale Univ. P., 2023.

Summary:

A bold new account of the Age of Revolution, one of the most complex and vast transformations in human history. “A fresh and illuminating framework for understanding our past and imagining our future. Powerfully argued and engagingly written, Patrick Griffin’s timely account of revolutionary regime change and reaction shows how a world of empires became our world of nation-states.” - Peter S. Onuf, coauthor of Most Blessed of the Patriarchs. “When we speak of an age of revolution, what do we mean? In this synoptic, compelling book, Patrick Griffin asks the difficult questions and invites readers to reconsider the answers.” - Eliga Gould, author of Among the Powers of the Earth. The Age of Atlantic Revolution was a defining moment in western history. Our understanding of rights, of what makes the individual an individual, of how to define a citizen versus a subject, of what states should or should not do, of how labor, politics, and trade would be organized, of the relationship between the church and the state, and of our attachment to the nation all derive from this period (c. 1750-1850). Historian Patrick Griffin shows that the Age of Atlantic Revolution was rooted in how people in an interconnected world struggled through violence, liberation, and war to reimagine themselves and sovereignty. Tying together the revolutions, crises, and conflicts that undid British North America, transformed France, created Haiti, overturned Latin America, challenged Britain and Europe, vexed Ireland, and marginalized West Africa, Griffin tells a transnational tale of how empires became nations and how our world came into being.

Contents:

Introduction

1. A Tangled World: The Atlantic in the Eighteenth Century

2. Disentangling the Atlantic: A Primer for Imperial Reform

3. The French Connection: The Hope of Revolution

4. The Gordian Knot of Fear: Violence in the Sovereign Abyss

5. The Web of War: Making States and Unmaking Empire

6. Singeing the Fray: The Vexed Task of Ending Revolution

7. Reknitting the Fabric: Nation, Empire, and Settlement

Epilogue

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Published with assistance from the Annie Burr Lewis Fund and from the Mary Cady Tew Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780300271447 (e-book)

9780300206333 (hbk.)

9780300271447

OCLC:

1374430756