Remembering Early Modern Revolutions (eBook, PDF)

England, North America, France and Haiti
Redaktion: Vallance, Edward

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Remembering Early Modern Revolutions is the first study of memory in relation to the major revolutions of the early modern period. Beginning with the English revolutions of the Seventeenth Century (1642-1660 and 1688-1689), this book also explores the American, French, and Haitian revolutions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429796494
• Artikelnr.: 54362258

Autorenporträt

Edward (Ted) Vallance is Professor of Early Modern British Political Culture at the University of Roehampton, London, UK. His previous publications include A Radical History of Britain (2009), The Glorious Revolution (2006) and Revolutionary England and the National Covenant (2005). He has also co-edited two volumes with Harold Braun: Contexts of Conscience (2004) and The Renaissance Conscience (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: revolution, time and memory; Chapter 1: Remembering the good
old cause; Chapter 2: Commemorating the English Revolution: local
deliverance and thanksgiving; Chapter 3: Remembering the regicide in an Age
of Revolutions: the case of Mark Noble; Chapter 4: 'A total contradiction
to every principle laid down at the time of the Revolution': American
revolutionaries and the Glorious Revolution; Chapter 5: Settlers among
empires: conquest and the American Revolution; Chapter 6: How the American
Revolution earned its Indépendence; Chapter 7: Reliving the French
Revolution through Gouverneur Morris's diary; an American perspective from
behind the scenes rediscovered; Chapter 8: Reviving the memory of James
Harrington (1611-77) in revolutionary France: Henry and Aubin's
translations in the year III of the French republic; Chapter 9: Communist
and neo-Babouvist readings of the Enlighenment and the French Revolution;
Chapter 10: The Haitian Revolution and the myth of the republic: Louis
Joseph Janvier's revisionist history; Chapter 11: Haiti's Fête Nationale: A
revolutionary site of memory; Afterword