Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions: Volume 1, The Enlightenment and the British Colonies (eBook)

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2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-62694-1 (ISBN)

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Volume I offers an introduction to the Enlightenment, which served as the shared background for virtually all revolutionary turmoil, and the American Revolution, which inaugurated the Age of Revolutions. Beginning with a thorough introduction, the volume covers international rivalry, the importance of slavery, and the reformist mind-set that prevailed on the eve of the revolutionary era. It addresses the traditional argument on whether the Enlightenment truly caused revolutions, concluding that the reverse is more apt: revolutions helped create the Enlightenment as a body of thought. The volume continues with a regional and thematic assessment of the American Revolution, revealing how numerous groups in British America - including Black and indigenous people - pursued their own agendas and faced interests at odds with the principles of the revolution.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.11.2023
• Mitarbeit: General-Herausgeber: Massachusetts) Klooster Wim (Clark University
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• ISBN-10: 1-108-62694-7 / 1108626947
• ISBN-13: 978-1-108-62694-1 / 9781108626941