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Book Synopsis'Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn' is an original illustrated volume which accompanies the landmark international travelling exhibition opening at the New York Historical Society in November 2011. This fascinating book brings together three globally influential revolutions - in America, France, and Haiti - to explore the enormous transformations in the world's politics and culture between Britain's victory in the Seven Years War in 1763 and the end of the Napoleonic Wars fifty-two years later. While most histories of these revolutions have been told exclusively as chapters within national histories, 'Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn' presents, for the first time, the story of the 18th-century Atlantic revolutions as a part of wider, intertwined, global narrative. Vivid text and images provide a context for our understanding of these major social upheavals and their lasting influence on contemporary society.
Table of ContentsForeword- Louise Mirrer, President and CEO of the New-York Historical Society Introduction- Richard Rabinowitz A Season of Revolutions: The United States, France, and Haiti- Thomas Bender Insurgents before Independence: The Revolution of the American People- T. H. Breen A Port in the Storm: Philadelphia's Commerce during the Atlantic Revolutionary Era- Cathy Matson Slavery and Freedom in the Age of Revolution- David Brion Davis and Peter P. Hinks The Achievement of the Haitian Revolution, 1791-1804- Robin Blackburn An African Revolutionary in the Atlantic World- Laurent Dubois and Julius S. Scott Liberty in Black, White, and Color: A Trans-Atlantic Debate- Jeremy D. Popkin A Vapor of Dread: Observations on Racial Terror and Vengeance in the Age of Revolution- Vincent Brown One Woman, Three Revolutions: Rosalie of the Poulard Nation- Rebecca J. Scott and Jean M. Hebrard The 1804 Haitian Revolution- Jean Casimir Curating History's Silences: The Revolution! Exhibition- Richard Rabinowitz
