War, Empire and Slavery, 1770-1830

by Rendall, Jane; Guyatt, Nicholas; Bessel, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780230229891
• ISBN10: 0230229891
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-10-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

RICHARD BESSEL is Professor of Twentieth Century History at the University of York, UK. Previously he taught at the Open University and has held visiting chairs at the Universities of Bielefeld and Freiburg. His most recent books are Germany 1945: From War to Peace, and (ed. With Claudia Haake), Removing Peoples: Forced Removal in the Modern World, both published in 2009.
 
NICHOLAS GUYATT is a Lecturer in Modern History at the University of York, UK. He specializes in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century American Intellectual and Political History. He is the author of Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607-1876 (Cambridge).

JANE RENDALL taught for many years at the University of York, in the History Department, the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies and the Centre for Women's Studies, and is now an Honorary Fellow there. She has published widely in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women's and gender history.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Series	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. viii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
List of Maps and Illustrations	p. xiii
List of Abbreviations	p. xv
Introduction: War, Empire and Slavery, 1770-1830	p. 1
A World in Upheaval
The 'Revolutionary Age' in the Wider World, c. 1790-1830	p. 21
The Revolutionary Abolitionists of Haiti	p. 44
Race and Slavery in the Making of Arab France, 1802-15	p. 61
The Making of Warriors: The Militarization of the Rio de la Plata, 1806-07	p. 81
Freedom and Captivity
The French Conspiracy of 1795: Paranoia and Opportunism on the Eve of Independence in Buenos Aires	p. 101
Armed with Swords and Ostrich Feathers: Militarism and Cultural Revolution in the Cape Slave Uprising of 1808	p. 121
Jacques-Pierre Brissot and the Fate of Atlantic Antislavery during the Age of Revolutionary Wars	p. 139
Borderlands of Empire, Borderlands of Race	p. 157
Identity and Difference
The French Revolutionary Wars in the Spanish-American Imagination, 1789-1830	p. 179
Old Subjects, New Subjects and Non-Subjects: Silences and Subjecthood in Fédon's Rebellion, Grenada, 1795-96	p. 201
The Russian Empire: Military Encounters and National Identity	p. 218
War, Empire and the 'Other': Iranian-European Contacts in the 'Napoleonic' Era	p. 235
Patriotism, Painting and the Portuguese Empire during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars	p. 256
Index	p. 277
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