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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Revolutions without borders
    sub title: the call to liberty in the Atlantic world
  name:
    name part: Polasky, Janet L.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ctu
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 371 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Nation-based histories cannot do justice to the rowdy, radical interchange of ideas around the Atlantic world during the tumultuous years from 1776 to 1804. National borders were powerless to restrict the flow of exciting new visions of human rights and universal freedom. This expansive history explores how the revolutionary ideas that spurred the American and French revolutions reverberated far and wide, connecting European, North American, African and Caribbean peoples more closely than ever before. Historian Janet Polasky focuses on the eighteenth-century travelers who spread new notions of liberty and equality. It was an age of itinerant revolutionaries, she shows, who ignored borders and found allies with whom to imagine a borderless world. As paths crossed, ideas entangled. The author investigates these ideas and how they were disseminated long before the days of instant communications and social media or even an international postal system. Polasky analyzes the paper records, including books, broadsides, journals, newspapers, novels, letters and more, to follow the far-reaching trails of revolutionary zeal. What emerges clearly from rich historic records is that the dream of liberty among America's founders was part of a much larger picture. It was a dream embraced throughout the far-flung regions of the Atlantic world.
  table of contents: Dramatis Personae -- Introduction: Revolution without Borders -- "The cause of all mankind" in Revolutionary Pamphlets -- Journals Relating "A share in two revolutions" -- The Revolutionary Narratives of Black "Citizens of the World" -- The Press and Clubs : "Politico-mania" -- Rumors of Freedom in the Caribbean : "We know not where it will end" -- The Revolutionary Household in Fiction : "To govern a family with judgment" -- Correspondence between a "Virtuous spouse, Charming friend!" -- Decrees "in the Name of the French Republic" : Armed Cosmopolitans -- Revolutionaries between Nations : "Abroad in the world" -- Chronology.
  note: Janet Polasky.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
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    geographic code: s------
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  subject:
    topic: Revolutions
    geographic: America
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Revolutions
    geographic: Europe
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Revolutions
    topic: History
    genre: Sources
  subject:
    topic: Revolutionaries
    topic: Travel
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Intercultural communication
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: America
    topic: Intellectual life
  subject:
    geographic: Europe
    topic: Intellectual life
  subject:
    geographic: America
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    geographic: America
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: Europe
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1789-1815
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    topic: Modern
    topic: 18th Century
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    topic: Social History
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Media Studies
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: Political Freedom & Security
    topic: General
  classification: E18.75 .P65 2015
  classification: 303.6/40973
  identifier: 9780300208948 (hardback : alkaline paper)
  identifier: 0300208944 (hardback : alkaline paper)
  identifier: 2014030322
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 141118
    record change date: 20151105182446.0
    record identifier: in00003531734