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.
- American Revolution (1775-1783)
- Revolt of Dutch Patriots (1785)
- French Revolution (1789-1799)
- Haitian Revolution (1791-1802)
- Polish War in the defence of constitution (1792) and Kosciuszko Uprising (1794)
- Batavian Revolution (1795-1801)
- Irish Rebellion of 1798
- Latin American revolutions
- Mexican War of Independence
- South American wars of independence
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 John Locke or Jean-Jacques 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.
[edit] Individuals and Movements
- George Washington (United States)
- Thomas Jefferson (United States)
- Benjamin Franklin (United States)
- Sons of Liberty (North America)
- Marquis de Lafayette (France and North America)
- Patriots (Netherlands)
- Société des Amis des Noirs (France)
- Richard Price and Joseph Priestley (Great Britain)
- Jacobin Club (France, 1789-1794)
- Lautaro Lodge
- Maximilien Robespierre (France)
- Society of the United Irishmen (Ireland, 1791-1804)
- Thomas Paine (Great Britain and North America)
- Friends of the People Society (Great Britain, 1792-)
- Society of the United Scotsmen (Scotland)
- Society of the United Englishmen
- Wolfe Tone (Ireland)
- Toussaint L'Ouverture in Haiti
- London Corresponding Society (London)
- Francisco de Miranda
- Fils de la liberté (Québec)
- Tadeusz Kosciuszko
- Simón Bolívar (South America)
[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)
- W.M. Verhoeven and Beth Dolan Kautz, eds. Revolutions and Watersheds: Transatlantic Dialogues, 1775-1815 (1999)
