Empire and Nation

The American Revolution in the Atlantic World

AvEliga H. Gould,Peter S. Onuf

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

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Beskrivning

How did events and ideas from elsewhere in the British empire influence development in the thirteen American colonies? What was the effect of the American Revolution on the wider Atlantic world? In Empire and Nation, leading historians reconsider the American Revolution as a transnational event, with many sources and momentous implications for Ireland, Africa, the West Indies, Canada, and Britain itself. The opening section situates the origins of the American Revolution in the commercial, ethnic, and political ferment that characterized Britain's Atlantic empire at the close of the Seven Years' War (1756-1763). The empire then experienced extraordinary changes, ranging from the first stirrings of nationalism in Ireland to the dramatic expansion of British rule in Canada, Africa, and India. The second part focuses on the rebellion of the thirteen colonies-touching on slavery and ethnicity, the changing nature of religious faith, and ideas about civil society and political organization. Finally, contributors examine the changes wrought by the American Revolution both within Britain's remaining imperial possessions and among the other states in the emerging "concert of Europe."The essays in Empire and Nation challenge facile assumptions about the "exceptional" character of the republic's founding moment, even as they invite readers to think anew about the complex ways in which the Revolution reshaped both American society and the Atlantic world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-04-12
Mått:152 x 229 x 30 mm
Vikt:658 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Anglo-America in the Transatlantic World
Antal sidor:392
Förlag:Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:9780801879128

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Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Eliga H. Gould is an associate professor of history at the University of New Hampshire. Peter S. Onuf is the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor at the University of Virginia.

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The many interesting essays in this volume together constitute a valuable scholarly contribution. -- Eric Hinderaker Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 2005 Taken together, these essays whet the reader's appetite for more. -- Colin Bonwick Journal of American History 2006 Exciting new collection. -- Peter A. Coclanis New West Indian Guide 2006 A stout, wide-ranging and well-produced volume which includes many useful contributions and testifies to ways in which the American Revolution has now been accommodated. -- Paul Giles Journal of American Studies 2006 The essays in this collection are in turns stimulating, provocative, and enlightening. They represent some of the best new work on the political history of the American Revolution and highlight some promising new directions in Atlantic history. -- Michael A. McDonnell Journal of Southern History 2007 In very thin disguise, this book is a thoroughly deserved festschrift for Johns Hopkins historian and long-time Doktorvater, Jack P. Greene. -- Edward Countryman Journal of the Early Republic 2006 An excellent collection of specialized monographs on a variety of topics in the reformation of the British Empire following the Seven Years War. -- Wayne F. Anderson Sixteenth Century Journal 2008 This collection of essays represents an important and rigorously-researched body of scholarship. -- James E. Bradley Parliamentary History 2009

Innehållsförteckning

List of ContributorsIntroductionPART I: Reconstituting the EmpireChapter 1 Fears of War, Fantasies of Peace: British Politics and the Coming of the American Revolution Chapter 2 The First Union: Nationalism versus Internationalism in the American Revolution Chapter 3 War and State Formation in Revolutionary America Chapter 4 John Adams, Republican Monarchist: An Inquiry into the Origins of His Constitutional ThoughtChapter 5 Revising Custom, Embracing Choice: Early American Legal Scholars and the Republicanization of the Common LawPART II: Society, Politics, and Culture in the New NationChapter 6 The Ratification Paradox in the Great Valley of the Appalachians Chapter 7 Similarities and Continuities: Free Society in the Tobacco South before and after the American RevolutionChapter 8 The Irish Immigrant and the Broadening of the Polity in Philadelphia, 1790-1800Chapter 9 Dionysian Rhetoric and Apollonian Solutions: The Politics of Union and Disunion in the Age of FederalismChapter 10 Civil Society in Post-Revolutionary AmericaChapter 11 Religion, Moderation, and Regime-Building in Post-Revolutionary AmericaPART III: The American Revolution and the Atlantic WorldChapter 12 The American Loyalist Diaspora and the Reconfiguration of the British Atlantic World Chapter 13 Early Slave Narratives and the Culture of the Atlantic Market Chapter 14 The British Caribbean in the Age of RevolutionChapter 15 Freedom, Migration, and the American RevolutionNotes 315Index 373