Beschreibung:
Wim Klooster is Professor of History at Clark University. He is the author or (co-)editor of many books, including The Dutch Moment: War, and Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World, The Atlantic World: Essays on Slavery,Migration, and Imagination, and Illicit Riches:Dutch Trade in the Caribbean, 1648-1795.
In the late eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, revolutions transformed the British, French, and Spanish Atlantic worlds. During this time, colonial and indigenous people rioted and rebelled against their occupiers in violent pursuit of political l
Reveals several central themes in the field of Atlantic history, from the concept of European empire to slavery and Diaspora
Acknowledgments1. Introduction: Empires at War; 2. Civil War in the British Empire: The American Revolution; 3. The War on Privilege and Dissension: the French Revolution; 4. From Prize Colony to Black Independence: The Revolution in Haiti; 5. Multiple R