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Imagining the British Atlantic After the American Revolution
Contributor(s): Meranze, Michael (Editor), Makdisi, Saree (Editor)
ISBN: 1442650699     ISBN-13: 9781442650695
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
OUR PRICE:   $72.90  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: November 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe - Great Britain - General
- History | United States - General
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 970
Series: UCLA Clark Memorial Library
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.3" W x 9.1" (1.25 lbs) 396 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
- Religious Orientation - Christian
 
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Between 1750 and 1820, tides of revolution swept the Atlantic world. From the new industrial towns of Great Britain to the plantations of Haiti, they heralded both the rise of democratic nationalism and the subsequent surge of imperial reaction.

In Imagining the British Atlantic after the American Revolution, nine essays consider these revolutionary transformations from a variety of literary, visual, and historical perspectives. On topics ranging from painting and poetry to prison reform, the essays challenge and complicate our understandings of revolution and reaction within the transatlantic imagination. Drawing on examples from different local and regional contexts, they demonstrate the many remarkably local ways that revolution and empire were experienced in London, Pennsylvania, Pitcairn Island, and points in between.

Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

Contributor Bio(s): Meranze, Michael: - Michael Meranze is a professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Makdisi, Saree: - Saree Makdisi is a professor in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles.