The imperial warfare of the period 1770-1830, including the American wars of independence and the Napoleonic wars, affected every continent. Covering southern India, the Caribbean, North and South America, and southern Africa, this volume explores the impact of revolutionary wars and how people's identities were shaped by their experiences. INDICE: Maps and Illustrations - Series Foreword - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - List of Abbreviations - Introduction: War, Empire and Slavery, 1770b 1830; R.Bessel , N.Guyatt & J.Rendall - PART I: A WORLD IN UPHEAVAL- The 'Revolutionary Age' in the Wider World, c. 1790b 1830; C.A.Bayly - The Revolutionary Abolitionists of Haiti; L.Dubois - Race and Slavery in the Making of Arab France, 1802b 1815; I.Coller - The Making of Warriors: The Militarization of the Rio de la Plata, 1806b 1807; A.Rabinovich - PART II: FREEDOM AND CAPTIVITY - The French Conspiracy: Paranoia and Opportunism on the Eve of Independence in Buenos Aires; L.L.Johnson - Armed with Swords and Ostrich Feathers: Militarism and Cultural Revolution in the Cape Slave Uprising of 1808; N.Worden - Jacques-Pierre Brissot and the Fate of Atlantic Antislavery during the Age of Revolutionary Wars; M-J.Rossignol - Borderlands of Empire, Borderlands of Race; J.Winch - PART III: IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE - The French RevolutionaryWars in the Spanish American Imagination, 1810b 1830; R.Earle - Old Subjects,New Subjects, and Non-Subjects: Silences and Subjecthood in Late Eighteenth-Century Grenada; C.Anderson - The Russian Empire: Military Encounters and National Identity; J.Hartley - War, Empire, and the 'Other': Iranian-European Encounters in the 'Napoleonic' Era'; J.de Groot - Patriotism, Painting and the Portuguese Empire during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars; F.Vlachou - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-22989-1
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha Publicación: 02/07/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés