Fire Under the Ashes - An Atlantic History of the English Revolution

Located in the crowded center of seventeenth-century London, the rough community of Coleman Street Ward was a hotbed of political and religious unrest. There among diverse and contentious groups of puritans a seething republican underground developed as the political means to a more perfect Protestant Reformation. But while Coleman Street has long been recognized as a crucial location of the English Revolution, its importance to events across the Atlantic has yet to be explored.
In "Fire under the Ashes," John Donoghue recovers the lasting significance of the radical ideas of Coleman Street Ward by exploring their wider Atlantic history and revealing how republican radicals redefined themselves against the emergent economy of empire. While some prominent revolutionaries led England's imperial expansion by investing deeply in the slave trade and projects of colonial conquest, other Coleman Street puritans crossed and re-crossed the ocean as colonists and revolutionaries, circulating new ideas about the liberty of body and soul. These radicals promoted social justice as the cornerstone of a republican liberty opposed to both political tyranny and economic slavery and their efforts, Donoghue argues, provided the ideological foundations for the abolitionist movement which swept the Atlantic world over a century later.

About the author

John Donoghue is an associate professor at Loyola University Chicago specializing in the history of the early modern Atlantic world. He lives in Chicago.

Summary

Recovers the lasting significance of the radical ideas of Coleman Street Ward by exploring their wider Atlantic history and revealing how republican radicals redefined themselves against the emergent economy of empire.

Product details

• Authors: John Donoghue, Donoghue John
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2013
• EAN: 9780226157658
• ISBN: 978-0-226-15765-8
• No. of pages: 392
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; England, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, C 1600 To C 1700, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions