Volume II covers the revolutions of France, Europe, and Haiti, with particular focus on the French and Haitian Revolutions and the changes they wrought. An important reference text for historians of the Atlantic World with a keen interest in Europe.
Volume II delves into the revolutions of France, Europe, and Haiti, with particular focus on the French Revolution and the changes it wrought. The demarcation between property and power, and the changes in family life, religious practices, and socio-economic relations are explored, as well as the preoccupation with violence and terror, both of which were conspicuous aspects of the revolution. Simultaneous movements in England, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, and Poland-Lithuania are also discussed. The volume ends with the Haitian Revolution and its impact on neighboring countries, revealing how the revolution was comprised of several smaller revolutions, and how, once the independent black State of Haiti was established, an effort was made to fulfill the promises of freedom and equality.
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'Klooster has collected seventy-one essays, managing to give an idea of the ongoing debate: solid reconstructions attempt to bring together historiography and history from different schools and perspectives. One can only appreciate the desire to reconstruct the historiographical debate because it opens the doors to the lives of scholars and their motivations and determinations in electing a theme and a research direction The necessary nuances and chiaroscuro make the picture more authentic and point to other possible studies.' Michaela Valente, Archivio Storico Italiano
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Evaluates the changes wrought by the French and Haitian Revolutions across the Atlantic World.
Introduction Wim Klooster; Part I. France:
1. Overview of the French
Revolution David Andress;
2. Abolishing feudalism Rafe Blaufarb;
3. The
countryside Noelle Plack;
4. The revolution and the Atlantic: the society of
the Friends of the Blacks Erica Johnson Edwards;
5. Tracking the French
Revolution in the United States: sovereignty, representation, absolutism, and
democracy Matthew Rainbow Hale;
6. The French Revolution and Spanish America
Clément Thibaud;
7. Violence and the French Revolution Howard G. Brown;
8.
Jacobins and terror in the French Revolution Marisa Linton;
9. The Directory,
Thermidor, and the transformation of the revolution Philippe Bourdin;
10.
Rethinking gender, sexuality, and the French Revolution Jennifer Heuer; Part
II. Western, Central, and Eastern Europe:
11. Switzerland: local agency and
French intervention: the Helvetic Republic Marc H. Lerner;
12. Revolution at
Geneva. Genevans in revolution Richard Whatmore;
13. The modernity of the
Dutch Revolution: ideas, action, permeation Joris Oddens;
14. The United
States of Belgium Janet Polasky;
15. Revolution in England? Abolitionism
Seymour Drescher;
16. The Irish Rebellion of 1798 Thomas Bartlett;
17. Italy:
revolution and counterrevolution (17891799) John A. Davis;
18. Germany and
the French Revolution Michael Rowe;
19. Reform and resistance: Hungary and
the Habsburg monarchy, 17801795 Orsolya Szakály;
20. PolandLithuania in the
age of the Atlantic Revolutions: Dilemmas of liberty Richard
Butterwick-Pawlikowski;
21. Transnational perspectives: the French
Revolution, the sister republics, and the United States Annie Jourdan; Part
III. Haiti:
22. Overview of the Haitian Revolution Robert D. Taber;
23.
Saint-Domingue on the eve of the Revolution John Garrigus;
24. The Haitian
Revolutions Bernard Gainot;
25. Toussaint Louverture, the cultivator system,
and Haiti's independence (17981804) Philippe Girard;
26. Establishing a new
nation: Haiti after independence, 18041843 Erin Zavitz;
27. Aspirations and
actions of free people of color across the Caribbean Jessica Pierre-Louis;
28. The unruly Caribbean: reverberations of Saint-Domingue's rebellions in
the Caribbean coast of New Granada and Venezuela, 17901800 Cristina Soriano;
29. The impact of the Haitian Revolution on the United States Ashli White.
Wim Klooster is the Robert H. and Virginia N. Scotland Chair and Professor of History and International Relations at Clark University. He is the (co-) author and (co-) editor of twelve books. His monograph The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth Century Atlantic World (2016) won the Biennial Book Award of the Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions and the Hendricks Award of the New Netherland Institute.
