Rethinking the Age of Revolution

ISBN-13: 9780367139124 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 138 str.

Michael A. McDonnell

Opis

As a new generation of scholars probe the limits of what we know about the Age of Revolution, this collection reveals a new social history of the period that has often been hidden from view. Contributors pay particular attention to the hidden peoples and forces at work in this Revolutionary world, from Indian insurgents in Columbia and the Andes, to the terror exercised on the sailors and soldiers of imperial armies, and from Dutch radicals to Senegalese chiefs. This book was originally published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies.

Spis treści

Introduction: Rethinking the Age of Revolution  1. "The sole owners of the land": Empire, war, and authority in the Guajira Peninsula, 1761–1779  2. Militarizing the Atlantic World: Army discipline, coerced labor, and Britain’s commercial empire  3. "The supreme power of the people": Local autonomy and radical democracy in the Batavian revolution (1795–1798)  4. Rethinking Africa in the Age of Revolution: The evolution of Jean-Baptiste-Léonard Durand’s Voyage au Sénégal  5. Sovereignty disavowed: the Tupac Amaru revolution in the Atlantic world

O autorze

Michael A. McDonnell is Associate Professor of History at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of numerous articles, essays, and books on the American Revolution and early American history, including The Politics of War (2007), Remembering the Revolution (2013), and Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America (2015).