Remembering Early Modern Revolutions : England, North America, France and Haiti EPUB

Edited by Edward (University of Roehampton, UK) Vallance

Part of the Remembering the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds series

EPUB

Download - Immediately Available

Please note: eBooks can only be purchased with a UK issued credit card and all our eBooks (ePub and PDF) are DRM protected.

Description

Remembering Early Modern Revolutions is the first study of memory in relation to the major revolutions of the early modern period.

Beginning with the English revolutions of the seventeenth century (1642â€“60 and 1688â€“9), this book also explores the American, French and Haitian revolutions. Through addressing these events collectively, this volume demonstrates the interconnectedness of these revolutions in the contemporary mind and highlights the importance of invoking the memory of prior revolutions in order both to warn of the dangers of revolution and to legitimate radical political change.

It also unpicks the different ways in which these events were presented and their memory utilised, uncovering the importance of geographical and temporal contexts to the processes of remembering and forgetting. Examining both personal and collective remembrance and exploring both private recollection and public commemoration, Remembering Early Modern Revolutions uncovers the rich and powerful memory of revolution in the Atlantic world and is ideal for students and teachers of memory in the early modern period.