Revolutions without borders : the call to liberty in the Atlantic world

"Nation-based histories cannot do justice to the rowdy, radical interchange of ideas around the Atlantic world during the tumultuous years from 1776 to 1804. National borders were powerless to restrict the flow of exciting new visions of human rights and universal freedom. This expansive histor...

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Main Author: Polasky, Janet L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven Yale University Press [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • Dramatis Personae
  • Introduction: Revolution without Borders
  • "The cause of all mankind" in Revolutionary Pamphlets
  • Journals Relating "A share in two revolutions"
  • The Revolutionary Narratives of Black "Citizens of the World"
  • The Press and Clubs : "Politico-mania"
  • Rumors of Freedom in the Caribbean : "We know not where it will end"
  • The Revolutionary Household in Fiction : "To govern a family with judgment"
  • Correspondence between a "Virtuous spouse, Charming friend!"
  • Decrees "in the Name of the French Republic" : Armed Cosmopolitans
  • Revolutionaries between Nations : "Abroad in the world"
  • Chronology