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1st Edition

Rethinking the Age of Revolution

Edited By Michael McDonnell Copyright 2017
148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge
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In the last twenty years, scholars have rushed to re-examine revolutionary experiences across the Atlantic, through the Americas, and, more recently, in imperial and global contexts. While Revolution has been a perennial favourite topic of national historians, a new generation of historians has begun to eschew traditional foundation narratives and embrace the insights of Atlantic and... Read more

Introduction: Rethinking the Age of Revolution Michael A. McDonnell

1. "The sole owners of the land": Empire, war, and authority in the Guajira Peninsula, 1761–1779 Forrest Hylton

2. Militarizing the Atlantic World: Army discipline, coerced labor, and Britain’s commercial empire Peter Way

3. "The supreme power of the people": Local autonomy and radical democracy in the Batavian revolution (1795–1798) Pepijn Brandon and Karwan Fatah-Black

4. Rethinking Africa in the Age of Revolution: The evolution of Jean-Baptiste-Léonard Durand’s Voyage au Sénégal Pernille Røge

5. Sovereignty disavowed: the Tupac Amaru revolution in the Atlantic world Sinclair Thomson

Biography

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).

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