The age of revolutions in global context, c. 1760-1840 / edited by David Armitage and Sanjay Subrahmanyam.

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Book
Language
English
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Description
xxxii, 301 pages : maps ; 23 cm

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      "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"--Provided by publisher.
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographical references and index.
      Contents
      • Introduction: the age of revolutions, c. 1760-1840: global causation, connection, and comparison / David Armitage and Sanjay Subrahmanyam
      • Sparks from altar of '76: international repercussions and reconsiderations of the American Revolution / Gary B. Nash
      • The French Revolution in global context / Lynn Hunt
      • Revolutionary exiles: the American loyalist and French émigré diasporas / Maya Jasanoff
      • Iberian passages: continuity and change in the South Atalntic / Jeremy Adelman
      • The Caribbean in the age of revolution / David Geggus
      • The dynamics of history in Africa and the Atlantic 'age of revolutions' / Joseph C. Miller
      • Playing Muslim: Bonaparte's army of the Orient and Euro-Muslim creolization / Juan Cole
      • Imperial revolutions and global repercussions: South Asia and the world, c. 1750-1850 / Robert Travers
      • Revolutionary Europe and the destruction of Java's Old Order, 1808-1830 / Peter Carey
      • Their own path to crisis? social change, state-building and the limits of Qing expansion, c. 1770-1840 / Kenneth Pomeranz
      • The age of revolutions in global context: afterword / C.A. Bayly.
      ISBN
      • 9780230580466 (hardcover)
      • 0230580467 (hardcover)
      • 9780230580473 (paperback)
      • 0230580475 (paperback)
      LCCN
      2009047529
      OCLC
      318873488
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