Overview

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. How did events and ideas from elsewhere in the British empire influence development in the thirteen American colonies? And 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 of the book 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. The empire 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.""

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Author:   Eliga H. Gould (University of New Hampshire) ,  Peter S. Onuf (Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History, Emeritus, University of Virginia)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781421418421

ISBN 10:   1421418428
Pages:   392
Publication Date:   26 November 2015
Recommended Age:   From 17
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Contributors Introduction PART I: Reconstituting the Empire Chapter 1 Fears of War, Fantasies of Peace: British Politics and the Coming of the American Revolution Chapter 2 The First Union: Nationalism versus Internationalism in the American Revolution Chapter 3 War and State Formation in Revolutionary America Chapter 4 John Adams, Republican Monarchist: An Inquiry into the Origins of His Constitutional Thought Chapter 5 Revising Custom, Embracing Choice: Early American Legal Scholars and the Republicanization of the Common Law PART II: Society, Politics, and Culture in the New Nation Chapter 6 The Ratification Paradox in the Great Valley of the Appalachians Chapter 7 Similarities and Continuities: Free Society in the Tobacco South before and after the American Revolution Chapter 8 The Irish Immigrant and the Broadening of the Polity in Philadelphia, 1790-1800 Chapter 9 Dionysian Rhetoric and Apollonian Solutions: The Politics of Union and Disunion in the Age of Federalism Chapter 10 Civil Society in Post-Revolutionary America Chapter 11 Religion, Moderation, and Regime-Building in Post-Revolutionary America PART III: The American Revolution and the Atlantic World Chapter 12 The American Loyalist Diaspora and the Reconfiguration of the British Atlantic World Chapter 13 Early Slave Narratives and the Culture of the Atlantic Market Chapter 14 The British Caribbean in the Age of Revolution Chapter 15 Freedom, Migration, and the American Revolution Notes 315 Index 373

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The many interesting essays in this volume together constitute a valuable scholarly contribution. -- Eric Hinderaker * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History * Taken together, these essays whet the reader's appetite for more. -- Colin Bonwick * Journal of American History * Exciting new collection. -- Peter A. Coclanis * New West Indian Guide * A stout, wide-ranging and well-produced volume which includes many useful contributions and testifies to ways in which the American Revolution has now been accommodated. * Journal of American Studies * The essays in this collection are in turns stimulating, provocative, and enlightening. They represent some of the best new work on the political history of the American Revolution and highlight some promising new directions in Atlantic history. * Journal of Southern History * In very thin disguise, this book is a thoroughly deserved festschrift for Johns Hopkins historian and long-time Doktorvater, Jack P. Greene. -- Edward Countryman * Journal of the Early Republic * An excellent collection of specialized monographs on a variety of topics in the reformation of the British Empire following the Seven Years War. -- Wayne F. Anderson * Sixteenth Century Journal * This collection of essays represents an important and rigorously-researched body of scholarship. -- James E. Bradley * Parliamentary History *

The essays in this collection are in turns stimulating, provocative, and enlightening. They represent some of the best new work on the political history of the American Revolution and highlight some promising new directions in Atlantic history. Journal of Southern History The many interesting essays in this volume together constitute a valuable scholarly contribution. -- Eric Hinderaker Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Taken together, these essays whet the reader's appetite for more. -- Colin Bonwick Journal of American History Exciting new collection. -- Peter A. Coclanis New West Indian Guide A stout, wide-ranging and well-produced volume which includes many useful contributions and testifies to ways in which the American Revolution has now been accommodated. Journal of American Studies In very thin disguise, this book is a thoroughly deserved festschrift for Johns Hopkins historian and long-time Doktorvater, Jack P. Greene. -- Edward Countryman Journal of the Early Republic An excellent collection of specialized monographs on a variety of topics in the reformation of the British Empire following the Seven Years War. -- Wayne F. Anderson Sixteenth Century Journal This collection of essays represents an important and rigorously-researched body of scholarship. -- James E. Bradley Parliamentary History

Author Information

Eliga H. Gould is a professor of history and chair of the Department of History at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire. Peter S. Onuf is professor emeritus of history at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Mind of Thomas Jefferson.

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