To begin the world over again : how the American Revolution devastated the globe
by Lockwood, Matthew H. (Author)
Summary
The first exploration of the profound and often catastrophic impact the American Revolution had on the rest of the world. While the American Revolution led to domestic peace and liberty, it ultimately had a catastrophic global impact-it strengthened the British Empire and led to widespread persecuti... Full description
- Introduction: the world the American Revolution made
- The revolution comes to Britain
- Treason, terror, and reaction
- Horatio Nelson and the imperial struggle in Spanish America
- Revolt and revolution in the Spanish empire
- European weakness and the Russian conquest of the Crimea
- Conflict and captivity in India
- The birth of British India
- Convict empire
- Exiles of revolution
- Africa, abolition, and empire
- Opium and empire
- The dawn of the century of humiliation