The age of Atlantic Revolution : the fall and rise of a connected world / Patrick Griffin.

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2023]

©2023

vii, 376 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

"The Age of Atlantic Revolution was a defining moment in western history. Our understanding of rights, of what makes the individual an individual, of how to define a citizen versus a subject, of what states should or should not do, of how labor, politics, and trade would be organized, of the relationship between the church and the state, and of our attachment to the nation all derive from this period (c. 1750-1850). Historian Patrick Griffin shows that the Age of Atlantic Revolution was rooted in how people in an interconnected world struggled through violence, liberation, and war to reimagine themselves and sovereignty. Tying together the revolutions, crises, and conflicts that undid British North America, transformed France, created Haiti, overturned Latin America, challenged Britain and Europe, vexed Ireland, and marginalized West Africa, Griffin tells a transnational tale of how empires became nations and how our world came into being."--Dust jacket.

English

April 20, 2023

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-358) and index.

Yale University Press, publisher.