The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c. 1760-1840 - Softcover

Armitage, David; Subrahmanyam, Sanjay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0230580475 ISBN 13: 9780230580473

Publisher: Red Globe Press, 2009

Synopsis

Distinguished historians provide uniquely broad coverage of the dynamics of global and regional change in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Sheds new light on the American, French and Haitian revolutions, alongside ground-breaking treatments of Africa's place in world history and Asia's age of revolutions.

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From the Back Cover:

A distinguished international team of historians examines the dynamics of global and regional change in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Providing uniquely broad coverage, encompassing North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and China, the chapters shed new light on this pivotal period of world history.

Offering fresh perspectives on:
· the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions
· the break-up of the Iberian empires
· the Napoleonic Wars.

The volume also presents ground-breaking treatments of world history from an African perspective, of South Asia's age of revolutions, and of stability and instability in China. The first truly global account of the causes and consequences of the transformative 'Age of Revolutions', this collection presents a strikingly novel and comprehensive view of the revolutionary era as well as rich examples of global history in practice.

About the Author:

David Armitage is Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University.  He is the author of The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (2000), Greater Britain, 15161776: Essays in Atlantic History (2004), and The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (2007); the editor of Theories of Empire, 14501800 (1998), Grotiuss The Free Sea (2004), and British Political Thought in History, Literature and Theory (2006); and the co-editor of Milton and Republicanism (1995) and The British Atlantic World, 15001800 (2002).

 
Sanjay Subrahmanyam is Doshi Professor of Indian History, University of California Los Angeles.  He was the first holder of the Chair in Indian History and Culture at the University of Oxford from 2002 to 2004. He is Joint Managing Editor of the quarterly Indian Economic and Social History Review. His publications include The Political Economy of Commerce: Southern India, 1500-1650, The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500-1700: A Political and Economic History, The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama, Penumbral Visions: Making Polities in Early Modern South India, Explorations in Connected History: From the Tagus to the Ganges, Explorations in Connected History: Mughals and Franks and (with Muzaffar Alam) Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400-1800.

About this edition

• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0230580475
• ISBN 13: 9780230580473
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 301