Friends of Freedom - The Rise of Social Movements in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions

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.

Product details

• Authors: Micah Alpaugh, Alpaugh Micah
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781009012553
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0901255-3
• No. of pages: 512
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History of Ideas, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy, maritime history, General & world history, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, General and world history, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions