Friends of freedom : the rise of social movements in the age of Atlantic revolutions /
Alpaugh, Micah,author.
"As eighteenth-century historians have made the 'global turn,' portions of Atlantic history have received more attention than others. Studies of trade, empire, and state-building have proliferated, but the interconnected histories of resistance against that world's greatest concentrations of power remain disproportionally overlooked. This book aims to be the first to demonstrate the rich web of interrelations between the increasingly inclusive and cosmopolitan social movements of the Age of Revolution. Liberty and rights, concepts previously restricted to certain nations and privileged groups, became potentially applicable to anyone, anywhere. Only low barriers existed between movements and countries: indeed, many activists desired the reduction of borders, boundaries, and old hatreds to right past abuses. Exuberant hopes spread that the political, economic, class, religious, racial, national, and other Old Regime barriers could be abolished - perhaps quickly"--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The American Revolution ignites social movements -- The Sons of Liberty and the creation of a movement model -- From boycott mobilization to the American Revolution -- Wilkes, liberty, and the Anglo American crisis -- The British Association movement and parliamentary reform -- The Irish Volunteers and militant reform -- Religious freedom, political liberty, and Protestant Dissenter civil rights -- British abolitionism and the broadening of social movements -- The French Revolution radicalizes social movements -- The genesis of the French Jacobins -- French revolutionary polarization and the coming of the Haitian Revolution -- The French Jacobin network in power -- Radicalizing club life in 1790s Britain -- The United Irishmen in an Atlantic crosswind -- The French Revolution and the making of the American Democratic Party -- From revolutionary committees to American electoral party politics.
"As eighteenth-century historians have made the 'global turn,' portions of Atlantic history have received more attention than others. Studies of trade, empire, and state-building have proliferated, but the interconnected histories of resistance against that world's greatest concentrations of power remain disproportionally overlooked. This book aims to be the first to demonstrate the rich web of interrelations between the increasingly inclusive and cosmopolitan social movements of the Age of Revolution. Liberty and rights, concepts previously restricted to certain nations and privileged groups, became potentially applicable to anyone, anywhere. Only low barriers existed between movements and countries: indeed, many activists desired the reduction of borders, boundaries, and old hatreds to right past abuses. Exuberant hopes spread that the political, economic, class, religious, racial, national, and other Old Regime barriers could be abolished - perhaps quickly"--
Jacobins
Political clubs
Social movements
Social movements
Liberty