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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      October 2021
      November 2021
      ISBN:
      9781009026116
      9781316515617
      9781009012553
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009026116
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.851kg, 514 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.736kg, 514 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History, Global History
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    From the Sons of Liberty to British reformers, Irish patriots, French Jacobins, Haitian revolutionaries and American Democrats, the greatest social movements of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions grew as part of a common, interrelated pattern. In this new transnational history, Micah Alpaugh demonstrates the connections between the most prominent causes of the era, as they drew upon each other's models to seek unprecedented changes in government. As Friends of Freedom, activists shared ideas and strategies internationally, creating a chain of broad-based campaigns that mobilized the American Revolution, British Parliamentary Reform, Irish nationalism, movements for religious freedom, abolitionism, the French Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, and American party politics. Rather than a series of distinct national histories, Alpaugh shows how these movements jointly responded to the Atlantic trends of their era to create a new way to alter or overthrow governments: mobilizing massive social movements.

    Awards

    Winner, 2022–23 Book Prize, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies

    Reviews

    ‘… a bold and wide-ranging thesis … does much more than offer parallel histories of the radical movements that swept through large parts of the Atlantic world in the later eighteenth century. It moves seamlessly from the demands of the American Sons of Liberty in the 1760s to the campaigns of the United Irishmen, the movement for parliamentary reform in Britain, the role of popular societies in the French Revolution, antislavery campaigns in Britain, the United States, and France, and popular organization during the revolution in Saint-Domingue.’

    Alan Forrest Source: Journal of Modern History

    ‘… a very fine book, richly documented, precise in its historiographical positions, which brings to life and relevance the Atlantic revolutions of the 1760s to the 1800s.’

    Marie-Jeanne Rossignol Source: H-France Review

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