Rethinking the Atlantic World: Europe and America in the Age of Democratic Revolutions

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Beyond Atlantic History....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
The One and the Many: The Two Revolutions Question and the ‘Consumer-Commercial’ Atlantic, 1789 to the Present....Pages 17-45
Democracy and Equality in the Radical Enlightenment: Revolutionary Ideology before 1789....Pages 46-60
Between Republicanism and the Enlightenment: Turgot and Adams....Pages 61-79
Nicolas Bergasse and Alexander Hamilton: The Role of the Judiciary in the Separation of Powers and Two Conceptions of Constitutional Order....Pages 80-99
Neutrality and Trade in the Dutch Republic (1775–1783): Preludes to a Piecemeal Revolution....Pages 100-119
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Thomas Jefferson and French Economic Thought: A Mutual Exchange of Ideas....Pages 123-146
The Question of Slavery in the Physiocratic Texts: A Rereading of an Old Debate....Pages 147-162
‘A New Kind of Federalism’: Benjamin Constant and Modern Europe....Pages 163-179
Industry, Government and Europe: From the Mercantilists to Saint-Simon....Pages 180-200
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
France and the United States at the End of the Eighteenth Century....Pages 203-218
The French and North American Revolutions in Comparative Perspective....Pages 219-238
Federalist Obsession and Jacobin Conspiracy: France and the United States in a Time of Revolution, 1789–1794....Pages 239-256
In Search of the Atlantic Republic: 1660–1776–1799 in the Mirror....Pages 257-275
The Republican Imagination and Race: The Case of the Haitian Revolution....Pages 276-293
Back Matter....Pages 294-308