Remembering Early Modern Revolutions: England, North America, France and Haiti

ISBN-13: 9781138887701 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 222 str.

Edward Vallance

Opis

Remembering Early Modern Revolutions is the first study of memory in relation to the major revolutions of the early modern period. Beginning with the English revolutions of the Seventeenth Century (1642-1660 and 1688-1689), this book also explores the American, French, and Haitian revolutions.

Spis treści

Introduction: revolution, time and memory; Chapter 1: Remembering the good old cause; Chapter 2: Commemorating the English Revolution: local deliverance and thanksgiving; Chapter 3: Remembering the regicide in an Age of Revolutions: the case of Mark Noble; Chapter 4: ‘A total contradiction to every principle laid down at the time of the Revolution’: American revolutionaries and the Glorious Revolution; Chapter 5: Settlers among empires: conquest and the American Revolution; Chapter 6: How the American Revolution earned its Indépendence; Chapter 7: Reliving the French Revolution through Gouverneur Morris’s diary; an American perspective from behind the scenes rediscovered; Chapter 8: Reviving the memory of James Harrington (1611–77) in revolutionary France: Henry and Aubin’s translations in the year III of the French republic; Chapter 9: Communist and neo-Babouvist readings of the Enlighenment and the French Revolution; Chapter 10: The Haitian Revolution and the myth of the republic: Louis Joseph Janvier’s revisionist history; Chapter 11:  Haiti’s Fête Nationale: A revolutionary site of memory; Afterword