War, empire and slavery, 1770-1830 / / edited by Richard Bessel, Nicholas Guyatt and Jane Rendall

• Pubblicazione: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; ; New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2010.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (319 p.)
• Disciplina: 909.7
• Soggetto topico: Imperialism - History - 19th century; Revolutions - History - 19th century; Slavery - History - 19th century; War - History - 19th century
• Altri autori: BesselRichard GuyattNicholas <1973-> RendallJane <1945->
• Note generali: "This volume arises from the conference 'War, Empire and Slavery, 1790-1820', held at The King's Manor, University of York, UK, 16-18 May 2008"--Introd.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword to the Series; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; List of Maps and Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: War, Empire and Slavery, 1770-1830; Part I A World in Upheaval; 1 The 'Revolutionary Age' in the Wider World, c. 1790-1830; 2 The Revolutionary Abolitionists of Haiti; 3 Race and Slavery in the Making of Arab France, 1802-15; 4 The Making of Warriors: The Militarization of the Rio de la Plata, 1806-07; Part II Freedom and Captivity ; 5 The French Conspiracy of 1795: Paranoia and Opportunism on the Eve of Independence in Buenos Aires6 Armed with Swords and Ostrich Feathers: Militarism and Cultural Revolution in the Cape Slave Uprising of 1808; 7 Jacques-Pierre Brissot and the Fate of Atlantic Antislavery during the Age of Revolutionary Wars; 8 Borderlands of Empire, Borderlands of Race; Part III Identity and Difference; 9 The French Revolutionary Wars in the Spanish-American Imagination, 1789-1830; 10 Old Subjects, New Subjects and Non-Subjects: Silences and Subjecthood in Fédon's Rebellion, Grenada, 1795-96 ; 11 The Russian Empire: Military Encounters and National Identity12 War, Empire and the 'Other': Iranian-European Contacts in the 'Napoleonic' Era; 13 Patriotism, Painting and the Portuguese Empire during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: War, empire and slavery, 1770-1830
• ISBN: 1-282-91565-7; 9786612915659; 0-230-28269-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822031103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: War, culture and society, 1750-1850.