Atlantic Revolutions

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"Atlantic Revolutions" is a cover term for a wave of late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century revolutions associated with the Enlightenment.

Various connecting threads among these varied uprisings include a concern for the "Rights of Man" and freedom of the individual; an idea (often predicated on Locke or Rousseau) of popular sovereignty; belief in a social contract, which in turn was often codified in written constitutions; a certain complex of religious convictions often associated with Deism or Voltairean agnosticism, and characterized by veneration of Reason; abhorrence of feudalism and often of monarchy itself. The Atlantic Revolutions also had many shared symbols, including the name "Patriot" used by so many revolutionary groups; the slogan of "Liberty"; the liberty cap; Lady Liberty or Marianne; the tree of liberty, and so on.

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[edit] References

  • David P. Geggus. The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (2002)
  • Jacques Godechot. France and the Atlantic revolution of the eighteenth century, 1770-1799 (1965)
  • Eliga H. Gould and Peter S. Onuf. Empire and Nation : The American Revolution in the Atlantic World (2004)
  • Palmer, Robert. The Age of Democratic Revolutions 2 vols. (1959, 1964)
  • Jonathan Sperber. The European Revolutions, 1848-1851 (2005)
  • W.M. Verhoeven and Beth Dolan Kautz, eds. Revolutions and Watersheds: Transatlantic Dialogues, 1775-1815 (1999)
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