Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVolume VII
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World HistoryProduction, Destruction, and Connection, 1750–Present
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Social developments
- Part II Culture and Connections
- Part III Moments
- 12 Atlantic revolutions: a reinterpretation
- 13 Global war 1914–45
- 14 The Cold War
- 15 1956
- 16 1989 as a year of great significance
- Part IV Ligaments of Globalization
- Index
- References
12 - Atlantic revolutions: a reinterpretation
from Part III - Moments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVolume VII
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World HistoryProduction, Destruction, and Connection, 1750–Present
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Social developments
- Part II Culture and Connections
- Part III Moments
- 12 Atlantic revolutions: a reinterpretation
- 13 Global war 1914–45
- 14 The Cold War
- 15 1956
- 16 1989 as a year of great significance
- Part IV Ligaments of Globalization
- Index
- References
Summary
Political revolutions, including an independence movement, had occurred in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Western Europe developed a common political culture in the Middle Ages. This chapter discusses the conflict among the monarchies, and the revolutions that took place in America, France and Haiti. During the eighteenth century, the British monarchy waged war against the Spanish and French monarchies for control of the Atlantic world. The US war of independence, with few exceptions, was characterized by traditional military engagements. The American Revolution was a limited revolution that really fully applied, immediately, only to adult white men. The French Revolution abolished seigniorial institutions and was characterized by mass politics, and influenced the nature and process of the Haitian Revolution. At the end of the eighteenth century, the Spanish monarchy's possessions in America constituted one of the world's most imposing political structures. Regional economic variations in Spanish America contributed to social diversity.
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- The Cambridge World History , pp. 273 - 298Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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