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Informationen zum Autor Thomas Bender is the University Professor of the Humanities; professor of History and director of Graduate Studies at New York University. His publications include The Unfinished City: New York and the Metropolitan Idea(2007) and A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History (2006). Laurent Dubois is professor of French Studies and History at Duke University, Durham, NC and a leading expert on Haitian history and culture. His books include Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804: A Brief History With Documents (with John Garrigus, 2006), and Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (2004). Richard Rabinowitz is one of the leading public historians in the United States. Over the past forty years he has led creative teams of scholars, curators, educators, artists, architects, designers and institutional planners in fashioning over five hundred successful and innovative history programs. Klappentext A fascinating illustrated volume which brings together three globally influential 18th-century revolutions-in America, France, and Haiti. Zusammenfassung Drawing on an international cross-section of experts! Revolution! shows how the diverse peoples of the Atlantic world registered their grievances in both legal argument and violent protest. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Louise MirrerIntroduction by Richard RabinowitzA Season of Revolutions: The United States, France, and Haiti by Thomas BenderInsurgents before Independence: The Revolution of the American People byT. H. BreenA Port in the Storm: Philadelphia's Commerce during the Atlantic Revolutionary Era by Cathy MatsonSlavery and Freedom in the Age of Revolution by David Brion Davis and Peter P. HinksThe Achievement of the Haitian Revolution, 1791-1804 by Robin BlackburnAn African Revolutionary in the Atlantic World by Laurent Dubois and Julius S. ScottLiberty in Black, White, and Color: A Trans-Atlantic Debate by Jeremy D. PopkinA Vapor of Dread: Observations on Racial Terror and Vengeance in theAge of Revolution by Vincent BrownOne Woman, Three Revolutions: Rosalie of the Poulard Nation by Rebecca J. Scott and Jean M. HébrardThe 1804 Haitian Revolution by Jean CasimirCurating History's Silences: The Revolution! Exhibition by Richard RabinowitzContributor BiographiesSelected BibliographyIndex...