The age of revolutions in global context, c. 1760-1840
By: edited by David Armitage and Sanjay Subrahmanyam.
Contributors: Armitage, David, 1965-; Subrahmanyam, Sanjay.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230580466; 9780230580473
Subjects: Revolutions -- History -- 18th century; Revolutions -- History -- 19th century; History, Modern -- 18th century; History, Modern -- 19th century
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; title: Sparks from Altar of 76: International Repercussions and Reconsiderations of the American Revolution Gary B. Nash; title: The French Revolution in Global Context Lynn Hunt; title: Revolutionary Exiles: The American Loyalist and French migr Diasporas Maya Jasanoff; title: World War and Local Sovereignty: The Spanish and Portuguese Empires in the Age of Revolutions Jeremy Adelman; title: The Caribbean in the Age of Revolution David C. Geggus; title: The Historical Dynamics of the Age of Revolutions in Africa Joseph C. Miller; title: Hybridity and Difference in the French Republic of Egypt Juan Cole; title: Imperial Repercussions: South Asia and the World, c. 1750-1850 Robert Travers; title: Times That Try Mens Souls: Revolutionary Europe and the Destruction of Javas Old Order, 1808-1830 Peter Carey; title: Their Own Path to Crisis? State-Building, Social Change and the Limits of Qing Expansion, c. 1770-1840 Kenneth Pomeranz; title: Afterword C. A. Bayly.