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[ Revolutions Without Borders: The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World By ( Author ) Mar-2015 Hardcover
Review:
""Revolutions without Borders" is a pathbreaking work. It brings supposedly marginal places and little-known figures, including women, into the center of a transnational narrative, demonstrating the intersection of sentimentality and politics on both sides of the Atlantic."--Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard University
"In this riveting and elegant book, Janet Polasky weaves together stories usually told separately about the many late eighteenth-century revolutions. This is an example to be followed in the new modes of transnational, Atlantic and global history."--Lynn Hunt, author of "Writing History in the Global Era"
"Significantly enhancing how previous scholars perceived the Atlantic world as spawning related but clearly discrete revolutions, this elegantly written book instead evokes a movement whose participants ebb and flow across borders, connected through print and personal ties."--Jack Censer, George Mason University
"A thrilling, moving, lyrical account of the Atlantic revolutions. Janet Polasky weaves together a remarkably diverse range of sources and narratives to reveal the cosmopolitan spirit of the revolutionary era and its role in the making of the nation-state."--Malick W. Ghachem, author of "The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution"
--Malick W. Ghachem
"A tour de force. Hugely informative and a joy to read, this is global history at its best."--Richard Whatmore, author of "Against War and Empire: Geneva, Britain, and France in the Eighteenth Century"
"A thoughtful treatment that will make scholars think but appeal to the lay history lover as well./i>--David Keymer "Library Journal "
'Janet Polasky charts the movement of the revolutionary ideas between 1776, with the American declaration of independence, and the 1904 Haitian revolution. It was not muskets, she says in this thrilling work of history, but pamphlets that ignited the revolutions that swept through America and Europe at the end of the 18th century.'--Jad Adams, "the Independent." --Jad Adams"The Independent" (04/22/2015)
"Revolutions without Borders" is a pathbreaking work. It brings supposedly marginal places and little-known figures, including women, into the center of a transnational narrative, demonstrating the intersection of sentimentality and politics on both sides of the Atlantic. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard University--Laurel Thatcher Ulrich"
Significantly enhancing how previous scholars perceived the Atlantic world as spawning related but clearly discrete revolutions, this elegantly written book instead evokes a movement whose participants ebb and flow across borders, connected through print and personal ties. Jack Censer, George Mason University--Jack Censer"
[A] bold and captivating book Gavin Jacobson, "The Guardian."--Gavin Jacobson"The Guardian" (06/20/2015)"
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