In Beyond 1776, ten humanities scholars consider the American
Revolution within a global framework. The foundation of the United
States was deeply enmeshed with shifting alliances and multiple
actors, with politics saturated by imaginative literature, and with
ostensible bilateral negotiations that were, in fact, shaped by
speculation about realignments in geopolitical power. To reanimate
these intricate and often indirect connections, this volume
uncovers the influences of people across disparate sites both
during and after independence. The book centers first on the
migration of ideas across the Atlantic, particularly among
intellectuals and through print. In this section, scholars focus on
how various European countries or cliques appropriate the
Revolution to reanimate an array of national, local, or
cosmopolitan affiliations. The essays in the second section
articulate how revolutions fostered surprising exchanges in, for
example the West Indies and in the first penal colonies of
Australia, along the Celtic fringe and Pacific Rim, and in the vast
territories through which goods circulated. Taken as a whole, this
collection answers the persistent calls from scholars to move
beyond the boundaries defined by the nation-state or periodization
to rethink narratives of U.S. foundations. The contributors examine
a range of texts, from novels and drama to diplomatic
correspondence, letters of common sailors, political treatises,
newspapers, accounting ledgers, naval records, and burial rituals
(many from non-Anglophone sources). Beyond 1776 will appeal to
scholars seeking to understand contact and exchange in the late
eighteenth century. It indexes how different intellectuals in the
period deployed the Revolution as a point of connection; follows
the dispersal of print books, guns, slaves, and memorabilia; and
evaluates literary responses to the new republic. The book puts in
conversation scholars of literature, theater, history, modern
languages, American studies, political science, transatlanticism,
cultural studies, women's studies, postcolonialism, and geography.
Contributors: Jeng-Guo Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; Matthew
Dziennik, United States Naval Academy; Miranda Green-Barteet,
University of Western Ontario; Carine Lounissi, Universite de
Rouen-Normandie; Therese-Marie Meyer, Martin-Luther-University of
Halle- Wittenberg; Maria O'Malley, University of Nebraska, Kearney;
Denys Van Renen, University of Nebraska, Kearney; Ed Simon, Bentley
University; Wyger Velema, University of Amsterdam; Leonard von
Morze, University of Massachusetts, Boston.
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