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Patrick Griffin The age of Atlantic Revolution
the fall and rise of a connected world
"The Age of Atlantic Revolution was a defining moment in western history. Our understanding of rights, of what makes the individual an individual, of how to define a citizen versus a subject, of what states should or should not do, of how labor, politics, and trade would be organized, of the relationship between the church and the state, and of our attachment to the nation all derive from this period (c. 1750-1850). Historian Patrick Griffin shows that the Age of Atlantic Revolution was rooted in...
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Engels | 376 pagina's | Yale University Press, New Haven | 2023
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Ashli White Revolutionary things
material culture and politics in the late eighteenth-century Atlantic world
"Historian Ashli White explores the circulation of material culture during the American, French, and Haitian revolutions, arguing that in the late eighteenth century, radical ideals were contested through objects as well as in texts. She considers how revolutionary things, as they moved throughout the Atlantic, brought people into contact with these transformative political movements in visceral, multiple, and provocative ways. Focusing on a range of objects--ceramics and furniture, garments and...
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Engels | 382 pagina's | Yale University Press, New Haven | 2023
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Gillian Cookson The cable
the wire that changed the world
Schets van de eerste pogingen een transatlantische kabel te leggen in de jaren 1850-1860.
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Engels | 160 pagina's | Tempus, Stroud | 2003
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