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A bold new account of the Age of Revolution one of the most complex and vast transformations in human history

The Age of Atlantic Revolution was a defining moment in western history Our understanding of rights of what makes the individual an individual of how to define a citizen versus a subject of what states should or should not do of how labor politics and trade would be organized of the relationship between the church and the state and of our attachment to the nation all derive from this period c 17501850

Historian Patrick Griffin shows that the Age of Atlantic Revolution was rooted in how people in an interconnected world struggled through violence liberation and war to reimagine themselves and sovereignty Tying together the revolutions crises and conflicts that undid British North America transformed France created Haiti overturned Latin America challenged Britain and Europe vexed Ireland and marginalized West Africa Griffin tells a transnational tale of how empires became nations and how our world came into being