In the new sovereign states, legal equality was introduced, republicanism embraced, and the people began to question the legitimacy of slavery. Palmers the age of the democratic revolution 2 vols. Microsoft word comparing and contrast the atlantic revolutions. This chapter compares the revolutions by trying to establish the main similarities and differences. Seismic waves traveled through the atlantic world in the halfcentury after 1775, linking uprisings on either side of the atlantic. How was the stability of the old regimes undermined. Read revolutions in the atlantic world pdf a comparative history by wim klooster nyu press in the late eighteenth and earlynineteenth. Revolutions in the atlantic world wields a comparative lens to reveal several central themes in the field of atlantic history, from the concept of european empire and the murky position it occupied between the old and new worlds to slavery and diasporas. Reviewed by susanne lachenicht published on hsozukult march, 2014. Revolutions in the atlantic world wim klooster pdf a comparative. One of the intermediate stations was at a new theater, whose columns. The revolutionaries in each country knew of the others. There were smaller upheavals in switzerland, russia, and brazil. Divergent as they were, each was a revolution in its own right.
It was associated with the atlantic world during the era from the 1770s to the 1870s. The atlantic revolutions were a revolutionary wave in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. A new look at a contentious period in the history of the atlantic world. Their chief common features can be summarized as follows. This book is the first to analyze these events through a comparative lens, revealing several central themes in the field of atlantic history. A new look at a contentious period in the history of the atlantic world within just a half century, the american, french, haitian, and spanish american revolutions transformed the atlantic world.