ABOUT THIS BOOK

To learn about the "Age of Revolutions" in Europe and the Americas is to engage with the emergence of the modern world. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, nations were founded, old empires collapsed, and new ones arose. Struggles for emancipation—whether from royal authority, colonial rule, slavery, or patriarchy—inspired both hopes and fears. This book, designed for university and secondary school teachers, provides up-to-date content and perspectives, classroom-tested techniques, innovative ideas, and an exciting variety of pathways to introduce students to this complex era of history.

The volume includes chapters on sources and methods for stimulating student debate and learning, including Tom Paine's Common Sense, the Haitian Declaration of Independence, and other key documents; role-playing games; visual arts and culture; and music, including opera and popular songs. Other chapters delve into specific themes, including revolution and riot, revolutionary terror, enlightenment, gender, slavery, nationalism, environment and climate, and the roles of politically excluded groups. Collectively, the contributions ensure a broad Atlantic scope, discussing the revolutions in Britain's North American colonies, Haiti, and Latin America, and European revolutions including France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Ben Marsh is a senior lecturer in history at the University of Kent and the author of Georgia's Frontier Women: Female Fortunes in a Southern Colony, winner of the Malcolm Bell, Jr. and Muriel Barrow Bell Award. Mike Rapport is a reader in modern European history at the University of Glasgow and the author of several books, including 1848: Year of Revolution and The Unruly City: Paris, London, and New York in the Age of Revolution.

REVIEWS

"This insightful, timely, and genuinely useful volume surveys the latest scholarship, suggests provocative ways to think through the subject, and offers helpful resources for teachers at both secondary schools and universities. I learned something from every chapter." —Andrew M. Schocket, author of Fighting over the Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments Introduction Ben Marsh & Mike Rapport Part One: Reflections Teaching about the Age of Revolutions, 1971–2015 Peter McPhee Teaching the Age of Revolutions in the Americas Lester D. Langley Part Two: Sources & Methods The Enlightenment: Who, When, and Where? Ambrogio Caiani The Haitian Declaration of Independence in the Age of Revolutions: Universal Rights, the Local and the Global Julia Gaffield Deep Revolutions: Inculcating Rousseau's "Unitary Self"—and an Alternative through Role-Playing Games Mark C. Carnes Art Matters: Teaching the Visual Arts in the French Revolution Mark Ledbury Music in the Age of Revolutions: American Anthems James Jackson Ashton Thomas Paine and the Common Sense of Revolutions Edward Larkin Part Three: Specific Themes & Revolutions Women's Rights and the Limits of Revolutions Lindsay Parker Understanding and Teaching the Boston Stamp Act Riots, 1765 Colin Nicolson Modernity Confronted: Experiencing the Age of Revolutions with Toussaint Louverture Christopher Hodson An Age in Microcosm: The United States of Belgium Jane Judge Teaching The Terror and Its Lessons David Andress Independence and Revolution in Latin America Marcela Echeverri The Dutch Revolution(s) Annie Jourdan Understanding Nationalism: Napoleon's Sword Arm and Achilles Heel Alan Forrest Revolutionary Environments: Nature, Climate, and Teaching Revolutions Sharla Chittick The World Wide Web: Using the Internet to Teach Revolutions Stuart Salmon and Ben Marsh Contributors Index