The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c. 1760-1840

A distinguished international team of historians examines the dynamics of global and regional change in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Providing uniquely broad coverage, encompassing North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and China, the chapters shed new light on this pivotal period of world history.
Offering fresh perspectives on:
. the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions
. the break-up of the Iberian empires
. the Napoleonic Wars.
The volume also presents ground-breaking treatments of world history from an African perspective, of South Asia's age of revolutions, and of stability and instability in China. The first truly global account of the causes and consequences of the transformative 'Age of Revolutions', this collection presents a strikingly novel and comprehensive view of the revolutionary era as well as rich examples of global history in practice.

David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Harvard University, USA. He is also an Affiliated Professor in the Harvard Department of Government, an Affiliated Faculty Member at Harvard Law School and an Honorary Professor of History at the University of Sydney, Australia.
He is the author or editor of fourteen books, among them The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (2000), which won the Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award, The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (2007), which was chosen as a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, Foundations of Modern International Thought (2013) and (with Jo Guldi) The History Manifesto (2014). His most recent edited works are Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought (2009), also a TLS Book of the Year, The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c. 1760-1840 (2010), a Choice Outstanding Academic Title, and Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People (2014). His articles and essays have appeared in journals, newspapers and collections around the world and his works have been translated into Chinese, Danish, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish.

'The perceptive and novel essays in this volume begin a wider re-conceptualization of global history.' C. A. Bayly, Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, University of Cambridge.
'A collection of important and thoughtful essays discussing - but also interrogating the claim that the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries witnessed a 'global crisis'.' - Linda Colley, Shelby M. C. Davis 1958 Professor of History, Princeton
University
'A hugely welcome project that connects with a major debate of growing interest and importance, with outstanding authors and chapters.' - John Darwin, Beit University Lecturer in the History of the British Commonwealth, University of Oxford