Description
The volume includes chapters on sources and methods for stimulating student debate and learning, including Tom Paine's Common Sense, the Haitian Declaration of Independence, and other key documents; role-playing games; visual arts and culture; and music, including opera and popular songs. Other chapters delve into specific themes, including revolution and riot, revolutionary terror, enlightenment, gender, slavery, nationalism, environment and climate, and the roles of politically excluded groups. Collectively, the contributions ensure a broad Atlantic scope, discussing the revolutions in Britain's North American colonies, Haiti, and Latin America, and European revolutions including France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
About the Author
Ben Marsh is a senior lecturer in history at the University of Kent and the author of Georgia's Frontier Women: Female Fortunes in a Southern Colony, winner of the Malcolm Bell, Jr. and Muriel Barrow Bell Award.
Mike Rapport is a reader in modern European history at the University of Glasgow and the author of several books, including 1848: Year of Revolution and The Unruly City: Paris, London, and New York in the Age of Revolution.
Reviews
This insightful, timely, and genuinely useful volume surveys the latest scholarship, suggests provocative ways to think through the subject, and offers helpful resources for teachers at both secondary schools and universities. I learned something from every chapter."" -Andrew M. Schocket,author of Fighting over the Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution
Book Information
ISBN 9780299311902
Author Ben Marsh
Format Hardback
Page Count 352
Imprint University of Wisconsin Press
Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
Weight(grams) 645g