The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c.1760-1840

ISBN-13: 9780230580466 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 288 str.

David Armitage

Opis

Distinguished historians provide uniquely broad coverage of the dynamics of global and regional change in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Sheds new light on the American, French and Haitian revolutions, alongside ground-breaking treatments of Africa's place in world history and Asia's age of revolutions.

Spis treści

Introduction: Causation, Connection and Comparison; D.Armitage& S.Subrahmanyam.- Sparks from Altar of '76: International Repercussions and Reconsiderations of the American Revolution; G.B.Nash .- The French Revolution in Global Context; L.Hunt.- Revolutionary Exiles: The American Loyalist and French Émigré Diasporas; M.Jasanoff .- Iberian Passages: Continuity and Change in the South Atlantic; J.Adelman.- The Caribbean in the Age of Revolution; D.C.Geggus .- The Dynamics of History in Africa and the Atlantic 'Age of Revolutions'; J.C.Miller.- Playing Muslim: Bonaparte's Army of the Orient and Euro-Muslim Creolization; J.Cole.- Imperial Repercussions: South Asia and the World, c. 1760-1840; R. Travers .- Revolutionary Europe and the Destruction of Java's Old Order, 1808-1830; P.Carey.- Their Own Path to Crisis? Social Change, State-Building and the Limits of Qing Expansion, c. 1770-1840; K.Pomeranz.- Afterword; C.A.Bayly.

O autorze

DAVID ARMITAGE is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University, USA. He is the author or editor of ten books, including The Ideological Origins of the British Empire, The Declaration of Independence: A Global History and (ed) The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800 (2nd edition).
 
SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM is Professor and Doshi Chair of Indian history at UCLA. His recent publications include Explorations in Connected History and (with Muzaffar Alam) Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400-1800.

Blurb

A distinguished international team of historians examines the dynamics of global and regional change in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Providing uniquely broad coverage, encompassing North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and China, the chapters shed new light on this pivotal period of world history.

Offering fresh perspectives on:
• the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions
• the break-up of the Iberian empires
• the Napoleonic Wars.

The volume also presents ground-breaking treatments of world history from an African perspective, of South Asia's age of revolutions, and of stability and instability in China. The first truly global account of the causes and consequences of the transformative 'Age of Revolutions', this collection presents a strikingly novel and comprehensive view of the revolutionary era as well as rich examples of global history in practice.