Empire and Nation

The American Revolution in the Atlantic World

By: Eliga H. Gould (Editor), Peter S. Onuf (Editor)

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Hardcover | 16 April 2005

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How did events and ideas from elsewhere in the British empire influence development in the thirteen American colonies? What was the effect of the American Revolution on the wider Atlantic world? In Empire and Nation, leading historians reconsider the American Revolution as a transnational event, with many sources and momentous implications for Ireland, Africa, the West Indies, Canada, and Britain itself.

The opening section situates the origins of the American Revolution in the commercial, ethnic, and political ferment that characterized Britain's Atlantic empire at the close of the Seven Years' War (1756--1763). The empire then experienced extraordinary changes, ranging from the first stirrings of nationalism in Ireland to the dramatic expansion of British rule in Canada, Africa, and India. The second part focuses on the rebellion of the thirteen colonies -- touching on slavery and ethnicity, the changing nature of religious faith, and ideas about civil society and political organization. Finally, contributors examine the changes wrought by the American Revolution both within Britain's remaining imperial possessions and among the other states in the emerging "concert of Europe."

The essays in Empire and Nation challenge facile assumptions about the "exceptional" character of the republic's founding moment, even as they invite readers to think anew about the complex ways in which the Revolution reshaped both American society and the Atlantic world.

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""This collection of essays represents an important and rigorously-researched body of scholarship.""

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History European History British & Irish History History of the Americas Military History American War of Independence Earliest Times to Present Day Early Modern History from 1450 to 1700

Introduction	p. 1
Fears of war, fantasies of peace : British politics and the coming of the American Revolution	p. 19
The first union : nationalism versus internationalism in the American Revolution	p. 35
War and state formation in revolutionary America	p. 54
John Adams, Republican monarchist : an inquiry into the origins of his constitutional thought	p. 72
Revising custom, embracing choice : early American legal scholars and the republicanization of the common law	p. 93
The ratification paradox in the great valley of the Appalachians	p. 115
Similarities and continuities : free society in the tobacco South before and after the American Revolution	p. 136
The Irish immigrant and the broadening of the polity in Philadelphia, 1790-1800	p. 159
Dionysian rhetoric and Apollonian solutions : the politics of union and disunion in the age of federalism	p. 178
Civil society in post-revolutionary America	p. 197
Religion, moderation, and regime-building in post-revolutionary America	p. 217
The American loyalist diaspora and the reconfiguration of the British Atlantic world	p. 239
Early slave narratives and the culture of the Atlantic market	p. 260
The British Caribbean in the age of revolution	p. 275
Freedom, migration, and the American Revolution	p. 295
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