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Revolution! : the Atlantic world reborn / [edited by Thomas Bender, Laurent Dubois, and Richard Rabionwitz.]

Catalog Data

Author:
Bender, Thomas  Search this
Dubois, Laurent 1971-  Search this
Rabinowitz, Richard  Search this
New-York Historical Society  Search this
Physical description:
287 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 30 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Caribbean area
United States
Haiti
France
Date:
2011
18th century
Revolution, 1775-1783
Revolution, 1791-1804
Revolution, 1789-1799
Notes:
Publication accompanies an international traveling exhibition.
AAPG copy Purchased from the SAAM/NPG Library Endowment.
Contents:
A season of revolutions : the United States, France, and Haiti / Thomas Bender -- Insurgents before independence : the revolution of the American people / T.H. Breen -- A port in the storm : Philadelphia's commerce during the Atlantic revolution era / Cathy Matson -- Atlantic revolutions and the age of abolitionism / David Brion Davis and Peter P. Hinks -- The achievement of the Haitian revolution, 1791-1804 / Robin Blackburn -- An African revolutionary in the Atlantic world / Laurent Dubois and Julius S. Scott -- Liberty in black, white, and color : a trans-Atlantic debate / Jeremy D. Popkin -- A vapor of dread : observations on racial terror and vengeance in the age of revolution / Vincent Brown -- One woman, three revolutions : Rosalie of the Poulard nation / Rebecca J. Scott and Jean M. HeĢbrard -- The 1804 Haitian revolution / Jean Casimir -- Curating history's silences : the Revolution exhibition / Richard Rabinowitz
Summary:
Explores, largely through illustrations, how three globally influential revolutions transformed politics and culture between 1763 and 1816, from the triumph of the British Empire in the Seven Years' War to the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
Topic:
Revolutions--History  Search this
Slave insurrections  Search this
History  Search this
Call number:
D288 .R48 2011
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_983301