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Beyond 1776, globalizing the cultures of the American Revolution, edited by Maria O'Malley and Denys Van Renen

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Beyond 1776

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edited by Maria O'Malley and Denys Van Renen

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globalizing the cultures of the American Revolution

In Beyond 1776,ten humanities scholars consider the American Revolution within a global framework. The foundation of the United States was deeply enmeshed with shifting alliances and multiple actors, with politics saturated by imaginative literature, and with ostensible bilateral negotiations that were, in fact, shaped by speculation about realignments in geopolitical power. To reanimate these intricate and often indirect connections, this volume uncovers the influences of people across disparate sites both during and after independence. The book centers first on the migration of ideas across the Atlantic, particularly among intellectuals and through print. In this section, scholars focus on how various European countries or cliques appropriate the Revolution to reanimate an array of national, local, or cosmopolitan affiliations. The essays in the second section articulate how revolutions fostered surprising exchanges in, for example the West Indies and in the first penal colonies of Australia, along the Celtic fringe and Pacific Rim, and in the vast territories through which goods circulated. Taken as a whole, this collection answers the persistent calls from scholars to move beyond the boundaries defined by the nation-state or periodization to rethink narratives of U.S. foundations. The contributors examine a range of texts, from novels and drama to diplomatic correspondence, letters of common sailors, political treatises, newspapers, accounting ledgers, naval records, and burial rituals (many from non-Anglophone sources). Beyond 1776 will appeal to scholars seeking to understand contact and exchange in the late eighteenth century. It indexes how different intellectuals in the period deployed the Revolution as a point of connection; follows the dispersal of print books, guns, slaves, and memorabilia; and evaluates literary responses to the new republic. The book puts in conversation scholars of literature, theater, history, modern languages, American studies, political science, transatlanticism, cultural studies, women's studies, postcolonialism, and geography.--, Provided by Publisher

Circulating the American Revolution: the Atlantic networks of Christian Jacob Hutter / Leonard von Morze -- Republicanism redefined: how the American Revolution transformed Dutch political culture / Wyger R.E. Velema -- French writers on the American Revolution in the early 1780s: a republican moment? / Carine Lounissi -- Political theology and the alternate enlightenment: from the War of the Three Kingdoms to the American Revolution / Ed Simon -- Charlotte Corday's gendered terror: femininity, violence, and domestic peace in Sarah Pogson's The female enthusiast / Miranda A. Green-Barteet -- Soldiers, politics, and the American Revolution in Ireland and Scotland / Matthew P. Dziennik -- Franklin's mail: gun trafficking and the elisions of history / Maria O'Malley -- "Stuck a bayonet into the grave & renew'd their oath": the American Revolution and the first fleet / Therese-Marie Meyer -- The tea not consumed: cultural and political meanings of the American Revolution in China, 1774-1912 / Jeng-Guo Chen -- "Walk upon water": Equiano and the globalizing subject / Denys Van Renen

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