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

by David Armitage, Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230580473
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/01/2010
Edition description:	2009
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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.
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.

Table of Contents

List of Maps vii

Acknowledgements viii

Notes on the Contributors ix

Introduction: The Age of Revolutions, c. 1760-1840 - Global Causation, Connection, and Comparison David Armitage Sanjay Subrahmanyam xii

1 Sparks from the Altar of '76: International Repercussions and Reconsiderations of the American Revolution Gary B. Nash 1

2 The French Revolution in Global Context Lynn Hunt 20

3 Revolutionary Exiles: The American Loyalist and French ?migr? Diasporas Maya Jasanoff 37

4 Iberian Passages: Continuity and Change in the South Atlantic Jeremy Adelman 59

5 The Caribbean in the Age of Revolution David Geggus 83

6 The Dynamics of History in Africa and the Atlantic 'Age of Revolutions' Joseph C. Miller 101

7 Playing Muslim: Bonaparte's Army of the Orient and Euro-Muslim Creolization Juan Cole 125

8 Imperial Revolutions and Global Repercussions: South Asia and the World, c.1750-1850 Robert Travers 144

9 Revolutionary Europe and the Destruction of Java's Old Order, 1808-1830 Peter Carey 167

10 Their Own Path to Crisis? Social Change, State-Building and the Limits of Qing Expansion, c.1770-1840 Kenneth Pomeranz 189

The Age of Revolutions in Global Context: An Afterword C. A. Bayly 209

Notes 218

Further Reading 273

Index 288

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'The perceptive and novel essays in this volume begin a wider re-conceptualization of global history.' C. A. Bayly, Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, University of Cambridge.

'A collection of important and thoughtful essays discussing – but also interrogating the claim that the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries witnessed a 'global crisis'.' - Linda Colley, Shelby M. C. Davis 1958 Professor of History, Princeton

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