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The Americas in the Age of Revolution - 1750-1850 (Paperback, New edition)
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The Americas in the Age of Revolution - 1750-1850 (Paperback, New edition)
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This magisterial work is a comparative history of three important
revolutions in the Americas: the American Revolution in 1776, the
1791 slave revolt in the French colony that became Haiti, and the
prolonged Spanish-American struggle for independence that ended a
half century later. Lester Langley describes the movements and
events that led to these wars of independence, explaining why
revolution took one form in one place and a different form in
another. Langley examines the political and social tensions
reverberating throughout British, French, and Spanish America,
pointing out the characteristics that distinguished each unpheaval
from the others: the impact of place or location on the course of
revolution; the dynamics of race and color as well as class; the
relation between leaders and followers; the strength of
counterrevolutionary movements; and, especially, the way that
militarization of society during war affected the new governments
in the postrevolutionary era. Langley argues that an understanding
of the legacy of the revolutionary age sheds tremendous light on
the political condition of the Americas today: virtually every
modern political issue - the relationship of the state to the
individual, the effectiveness of government, the liberal promise
for progress, and the persistence of color as a critical dynamic in
social policy - was central to the earlier period.
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