Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 564 pages)
ISBN:
9781108567671
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9781108476034
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9781108469432
Content:
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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108476034
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions: Volume 1, The Enlightenment and the British Colonies Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023 ISBN 9781108476034
Language:
English
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.1017/9781108567671
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