Revolutionary Atlantic - Blaufarb, Rafe

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Résumé :
The Revolutionary Atlantic: Republican Visions, 1760-1830: A Documentary History is the first book to bring together primary sources on the four major revolutions--American, French, Haitian, and Spanish--that comprised the Age of Atlantic Revolutions. There are primary sourcebooks on all of these revolutions, but never before have documents from all four revolutions been brought together within a single volume so that the revolutionary republican movement can be examined as a whole. Unlike the selections found in other texts, the documents in The Revolutionary Atlantic do not skimp on length, allowing instructors and students to delve deeply into major issues of republican revolution. Combining classic, foundational texts, like Madison's 10th Federalist essay, and more obscure sources, such as archival peasant accounts of the Great Fear, The Revolutionary Atlantic is an indispensable resource for teaching Atlantic history....

Biographie:

• Acknowledgements


• About the Author


• Map 1: The Atlantic in 1763


• Map 2: The Atlantic in 1830




• INTRODUCTION


• CHAPTER ONE: THE ENGLIGHTENMENT


• The Giants


• John Locke, Two Treatises of Government (1689)


• Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws (1748)


• Denis Diderot, Political Authority (1751)


• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762)


• History and Political Theory


• Henry de Boulainvillier, History of the Ancient Government of France (1727)


• Nicholas Moreau, Lessons in Morality, Politics and Public Law drawn from


• the History of Our Monarchy (1773)


• Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, Observations on the History of France (1765)


• Enlightenment and Revolution




• Guillame-Joseph Saige, The Citizen's Catechism (1788)


• CHAPTER TWO: THE STRAINS OF EMPIRE


• Spain




• Alexander Von Humboldt on New Spain (Mexico) (1814)


• Economic Complaints (1828)


• Exploitation and Corruption: The View from the Top (1768)


• Exploitation and Corruption: The View from Below (1781)


• First Stirrings of Revolution (1799)


• France




• Taxing Saint-Domingue (1763-4)


• Great Britain




• Royal Proclamation on the Western Territories (1763)


• Grievances of Western Settlers (1764)


• Reaction to the Quebec Act (1775)


• Adam Smith on Colonial Taxation (1776)


• A New Colonial Order (1764)


• Resistance: New York Petition to the House of Commons (1764)


• Resistance: The Irish House of Commons (1763)


• Resistance: The Jamaican House of Assembly (1769-83)


• CHAPTER THREE: ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION


• Repealing the Stamp Act (1766)




• Parliamentary Debate over the Withdrawal of the Stamp Act (1766)


• Parliamentary Testimony of Benjamin Franklin (1766)


• Conflict Intensifies (1766-1774)




• Samuel Adams, The Rights of the Colonists (1772)


• A Climate of Paranoia (1773)


• More Paranoia (1774)


• On the Brink (1774-75)




• The Continental Congress's Declaration and Resolves (1774)


• Edmund Burke, Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)


• Imperial Shockwaves




• The View from Jamaica (1774)


• The View from Ireland (1776)


• The Breaking Point (1775-76)




• Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (1775)


• Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)


• Charles Inglis, The True Interest of America Impartially Stated (1776)


• Declaration of Independence (1776)


• Loyalist Declaration of Dependence (1781)


• CHAPTER FOUR: WINNING AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE


• Race, Slavery, and the War




• Lord Dunmore's Proclamation (1775)


• John Laurens Recommends Recruiting Slaves (1778)


• Alexander Hamilton's Response to the Idea (1779)


• George Washington's Reaction (1779)


• Slave Petition for Freedom to the Massachusetts Legislature (1777)


• Pennsly...

  Sommaire:
  Rafe Blaufarb (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is Ben Weider Eminent Scholar Chair in Napoleonic History and the Director of the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution at Florida State University. He is the author of The French Army, 1750-1820: Careers, Talent, Merit (2002), Bonapartists in the Borderlands: French Refugees and Exiles on the Gulf Coast, 1815-1835 (2005), and Napoleon: Symbol for an Age (2007). He has published articles in a number of journals, including the AHR, Past and Present, Annales, and the Journal of Modern History.
  
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