| Description |
vii, 544 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Part I. The weight of the old regime, 1760-1783. A hierarchical world / Atlantic world -- The first imperial crisis / British North America -- The American Revolution / North America -- The revolutions in the Andes / Peru -- Part II. Revolutions, limited, 1778-1798. News of war / Europe -- the top-down Revolutions / Netherlands and United States -- The revolution begins in France / Paris -- The politics of crowds and clubs / France -- The assult on slavery / Saint-Domingue -- Part III. Mass movements and mass cultures, 1795-1815. Ruins and reconstruction / Atlantic World -- The limits of republicanism / Genoa and the United States -- The new social order emerges / North and South America -- The Haitian state / North America and the Caribbean -- A cultural transformation / Europe -- Part IV. Revolution, fulfilled and failed, 1805-1825. The worlds Napoleon made / Europe -- The journeys of Louis-Augustin / France and the United States -- The revolutions curtailed / United States and Haiti -- The constitutions promulgated / Spanish America -- The nation under arms / South America. |
| Summary |
"In The Age of Revolutions, historian Nathan Perl-Rosenthal offers the first narrative history of this entire era. Through a kaleidoscope of lives both familiar and unknown—from John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Napoleon to an ambitious French naturalist and a seditious Peruvian nun—he retells the revolutionary epic as a generational story. The first revolutionary generation, fired by radical ideas, struggled to slip the hierarchical bonds of the old order. Their failures molded a second generation, more adept at mass organizing but with an illiberal tint. The sweeping political transformations they accomplished after 1800 etched social and racial inequalities into the foundations of modern democracy." --publisher's website. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Revolutions -- History -- 18th century.
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History, Modern -- 18th century.
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Revolutions -- History -- 19th century.
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United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.
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France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799.
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Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804.
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Túpac Amaru, José Gabriel, 1738-1781.
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Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement.
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| ISBN |
9781541603196 |
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1541603192 |
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