Friends of Freedom: The Rise of Social Movements in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions

ISBN-13: 9781316515617 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 400 str.

Micah Alpaugh

Opis

Demonstrates how the activists who mobilized the Age of Atlantic Revolutions' greatest social movements worked together across nations.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. The American revolution ignites social movements: 1. The sons of liberty and the creation of a movement model; 2. From boycott mobilization to the American revolution; 3. Wilkes, liberty, and the Anglo-American crisis; 4. The British association movement and Parliamentary reform; 5. The Irish volunteers and Militant reform; 6. Religious freedom, political liberty, and protestant dissenter civil rights; 7. The rise of American abolitionism; 8. British abolitionism and the Broadening of Social Movements; Part II. The French revolution radicalizes social movements: 9. The genesis of the French Jacobins; 10. French revolutionary polarization and the coming of the Haitian Revolution; 11. The French Jacobin network in power; 12. Radicalizing club life in 1790s Britain; 13. The United Irishmen in an Atlantic crosswind; 14. The French revolution and the making of the American democratic party; 15. From revolutionary committees to American electoral party politics.