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

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Notes on the Contributors......Page 9
Introduction: Beyond Atlantic History......Page 14
Part I: Political Ideas and Economic Models in Eighteenth-Century Europe and America......Page 28
1 The One and the Many: The Two Revolutions Question and the ‘Consumer-Commercial’ Atlantic, 1789 to the Present......Page 30
2 Democracy and Equality in the Radical Enlightenment: Revolutionary Ideology before 1789......Page 59
3 Between Republicanism and the Enlightenment: Turgot and Adams......Page 74
4 Nicolas Bergasse and Alexander Hamilton: The Role of the Judiciary in the Separation of Powers and Two Conceptions of Constitutional Order......Page 93
5 Neutrality and Trade in the Dutch Republic (1775–1783): Preludes to a Piecemeal Revolution......Page 113
Part II: Free Trade and Democratic Revolutions in Eighteenth-Century Europe and America......Page 134
6 Thomas Jefferson and French Economic Thought: A Mutual Exchange of Ideas......Page 136
7 The Question of Slavery in the Physiocratic Texts: A Rereading of an Old Debate......Page 160
8 ‘A New Kind of Federalism’: Benjamin Constant and Modern Europe......Page 176
9 Industry, Government and Europe: From the Mercantilists to Saint-Simon......Page 193
Part III: The American and the French Revolutions: From Two Continents a New Political World......Page 214
10 France and the United States at the End of the Eighteenth Century......Page 216
11 The French and North American Revolutions in Comparative Perspective......Page 232
12 Federalist Obsession and Jacobin Conspiracy: France and the United States in a Time of Revolution, 1789–1794......Page 252
13 In Search of the Atlantic Republic: 1660–1776–1799 in the Mirror......Page 270
14 The Republican Imagination and Race: The Case of the Haitian Revolution......Page 289
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H......Page 313
L......Page 314
M......Page 315
N......Page 316
P......Page 317
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