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Demonstrates how the activists who mobilized the Age of Atlantic Revolutions' greatest social movements worked together across nations.
List of contents
Introduction; Part I. The American revolution ignites social movements: 1. The sons of liberty and the creation of a movement model; 2. From boycott mobilization to the American revolution; 3. Wilkes, liberty, and the Anglo-American crisis; 4. The British association movement and Parliamentary reform; 5. The Irish volunteers and Militant reform; 6. Religious freedom, political liberty, and protestant dissenter civil rights; 7. The rise of American abolitionism; 8. British abolitionism and the Broadening of Social Movements; Part II. The French revolution radicalizes social movements: 9. The genesis of the French Jacobins; 10. French revolutionary polarization and the coming of the Haitian Revolution; 11. The French Jacobin network in power; 12. Radicalizing club life in 1790s Britain; 13. The United Irishmen in an Atlantic crosswind; 14. The French revolution and the making of the American democratic party; 15. From revolutionary committees to American electoral party politics.
About the author
Micah Alpaugh is Associate Professor of History at the University of Central Missouri. His previous publications include Non-Violence and the French Revolution: Political Demonstrations in Paris, 1787-1795 (2015), The French Revolution: A History in Documents (2021), and articles in European History Quarterly, Journal of Social History, and French Historical Studies.
