How the Old World Ended: The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution, 1500–1800 by Jonathan Scott, and: Borderless Empire: Dutch Guiana in the Atlantic World, 1750–1800 by Bram Hoonhout

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 588-598
Author(s):  
Evan Haefeli
Keyword(s):  
American Revolution ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
Old World

Empire and Nation: The American Revolution in the Atlantic World

2007 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 683
Author(s):  
Michael A. McDonnell ◽  
Eliga H. Gould ◽  
Peter S. Onuf
Keyword(s):  
American Revolution ◽  
Atlantic World

The Persistence of Mutual Influence: Europe and Latin America in the 1820s

2011 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Brown ◽  
Gabriel Paquette
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Old World ◽  
History Of

The independence of Latin America from colonial rule in the first decades of the nineteenth century is generally held to have broken the bonds which had linked Europe to the Americas for three centuries. This article contends that a re-examination of the decade of the 1820s reveals the persistence, as well as the reconfiguration, of connections between the Old World and the New after the dissolution of the Iberian Atlantic monarchies. Some of these multi-faceted connections are introduced and explored, most notably commercial ties, intellectual and cultural influences, immigration, financial obligations, the slave trade and its suppression, and diplomatic negotiations. Recognition and appreciation of these connections has important consequences for our understandings of the history of the Atlantic World, the ‘Age of Revolutions’, and Latin American Independence itself.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Matthew R. Bahar
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
American Indians ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
The Political ◽  
Sea Power ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Economic

A Thanksgiving Day pageant at Plymouth Harbor, Massachusetts, in 1970 revealed the extent to which modern Americans have forgotten an important chapter of their early past. Though profoundly significant in the political, economic, and cultural development of both Native and colonial societies in the Northeast, the history of Wabanaki sea power has been intentionally and inadvertently overlooked by myriad peoples. New Englanders in the era of the American Revolution ignored their history of victimhood at the hands of Indians and their dependency on the British Empire to mitigate it. The story has since been buried deeper by popular and academic writing informed by historical assumptions about American Indians, the Atlantic world, and piracy.

The Spread of Antislavery Sentiment through Proslavery Tracts in the Transatlantic Evangelical Community, 1740s–1770s

2012 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 348-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Young Hwi Yoon
Keyword(s):  
American Revolution ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
Great Awakening ◽  
Religious Revival ◽  
Moral Conviction ◽  
Political Events ◽  
History Of ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The Revolution

In the history of the Atlantic antislavery movement, two events were of great importance: the Great Awakening and the American Revolution. In the 1730s and 1740s, many evangelicals stimulated by the religious revival, travelled to the opposite side of the Atlantic, preached the gospel, and published a number of books that contained their evangelical faith and ideals. Through these activities many evangelicals in Anglo-American communities shared common interests, faith, and ideology, and some found a channel of transatlantic communication in which they were able to debate the slavery issue. The American Revolution also contributed to creating an atmosphere of tension in the 1770s, in which antislavery sentiment became transformed into moral conviction. The development of this ideology can be explained by the spread of antipathy toward slavery in the Atlantic world before the Revolution. This essay focuses on the change in the evangelical mindset between these two religio-political events, asking: how did the antislavery sentiment spread through the transatlantic evangelical network from the 1740s into the 1770s?

scholarly journals ‘I have been obliged to Send Nassaw’: an enslaved healer’s medical labour and skill in eighteenth-century Virginia

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-139
Author(s):  
Christopher M. Blakley
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
African Descent ◽  
Medical Work ◽  
Nurse Caring ◽  
Medical Career

AbstractThis article examines the medical career of an enslaved physician in Virginia named Nassaw from the mid eighteenth-century until the period of the American Revolution. I develop a taxonomy of Nassaw’s labours as a nurse caring for the sick, a healer administering medicines at the behest of his enslaver and as a doctor in his own right making medical judgements as he treated his patients. Nassaw is in some ways comparable to other enslaved healers of African descent in the Atlantic world, including well-known Mohanes and ritual specialists in Brazil and Latin America. However, due to his role as a physician employed by his slaveholder to principally heal other enslaved people, Nassaw struggled to find satisfaction in his labours as a healer as other enslaved people rightly perceived him as an agent of their enslaver whose medical work healed their bodies while extending their oppression. I argue that Nassaw became frustrated and depressed, and turned to drinking because of his inability to pursue or experience what Sharla M. Fett terms a ‘relational vision of health’ in the Chesapeake. Moreover, I interpret his drinking as a rebuke to the racist pretensions of his enslaver – who instructed him in pharmacy and surgery – who aimed to transform Nassaw into an Enlightened ‘black exhibit’ by training him to be a doctor. I conclude by returning to how precisely different Nassaw was from other enslaved healers in the Chesapeake like Tom of Nomini Hall or Romeo, and make the case that Nassaw deserves a place in histories of slavery and medicine precisely because he was an enslaved plantation doctor rather than a popular healer or conjuror.

scholarly journals The American Revolution and the Habsburg Monarchy

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Singerton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Habsburg Monarchy ◽  
The Impact

Jonathan Singerton’s is the first work to analyze the impact of the American Revolution in the Habsburg lands in full. He narrates how the Habsburg dynasty first received struggled with the news of the American Revolution and then how they sought to utilize their connections with a sovereign United States of America. Overall, Singerton recasts scholarly conceptions of the Atlantic World and also presents a more globalized view of the eighteenth-century Habsburg world, highlighting how the American call to liberty was answered in the remotest parts of central and eastern Europe but also showing how the United States failed to sway one of the largest, most powerful states in Europe onto its side in the War for American Independence.

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