The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions: Volume 1, The Enlightenment and the British Colonies

Wim Klooster is the Robert H. and Virginia N. Scotland Chair and Professor of History and International Relations at Clark University. He is the (co-) author and (co-) editor of twelve books. His monograph The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth Century Atlantic World (2016) won the Biennial Book Award of the Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions and the Hendricks Award of the New Netherland Institute.

Introduction Wim Klooster; Part I. Enlightenment and culture: 1. Enlightenment and the American Caroline Winterer; 2. Enlightenment and the French Revolution Johnson Kent Wright; 3. Enlightenment and the Ibero-American Revolutions Brian Hamnett; 4. Cultural practices and revolutions, ca. 1760–1825 Nathan Perl-Rosenthal; Part II. The British Colonies: 5. The revolution in British America: General overview Mark Peterson; 6. The myth of “salutary neglect”: Empire and revolution in the long eighteenth century Holly Brewer; 7. The British Atlantic on the eve of American independence Patrick Griffin; 8. Cities and citizenship in revolution Jessica Choppin Roney; 9. The other British colonies Trevor Burnard; 10. The participation of France and Spain Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia; 11. Britain, Ireland, and the American Revolution ca. 1763–1785 Stephen Conway; 12. A contest of wills: The spectrum and experience of political violence in the American Revolution Wayne E. Lee; 13. Recovering loyalism: Opposition to the American Revolution as a good idea Liam Riordan; 14. White women and the American Revolution Ami Pflugrad-Jackisch; 15. Blacks in the British colonies James Sidbury; 16. Life, land, and liberty: The Native Americans' revolution Colin Calloway; 17. Shaping the constitution Max Edling; 18. Reform and rebellion in Spanish America at the time of the American Revolution Anthony McFarlane; 19. International warfare and the non-British Caribbean Wim Klooster; 20. Interpreting a symbol of progress and regression: European views of America's revolution and early republic, 1780–1790 Lloyd Kramer.