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10 - Empire, War, and Racial Hierarchy in the Making of the Atlantic Revolutionary Nations

from Part ii - Paradigm Shifts and Turning Points in the Era of Globalization, 1500 to the Present

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2023

By
Malick W. Ghachem
Edited by
Cathie Carmichael ,
Matthew D'Auria  and
Aviel Roshwald
Cathie Carmichael
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia
Matthew D'Auria
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia
Aviel Roshwald
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
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Summary

In 1954, the great African-American painter Jacob Lawrence conceived of a remarkable series of paintings that would, in his words, “depict the struggles of a people to create a nation and their attempt to build a democracy.” Initially, he had in mind a grand narrative beginning with the “causes and events leading into the American Revolutionary War” and ending in the early years of the twentieth century. As finally executed, Lawrence’s Struggle series of panels (1954–1956) extended chronologically from the 1770 Boston Massacre to the aftermath of the battle of New Orleans in 1815. Lawrence thereby placed the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 at the center of the path to American nationhood.

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empireracewarracial hierarchyAtlantic HistoryCaribbean Historyslaveryrevolution
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The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism , pp. 208 - 230
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Adelman, Jeremy, “An Age of Imperial Revolutions,” American Historical Review, 113/2 (1 April 2008), 319–340.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Baker, Keith M., Inventing the French Revolution: Essays on French Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bell, David, The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680–1800 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003).Google Scholar
Bradburn, Douglas, The Citizenship Revolution: Politics and the Creation of the American Union, 1776–1804 (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014).Google Scholar
Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009).Google Scholar
Furet, François and Ozouf, Mona (eds.), The Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989).Google Scholar
Gaffield, Julia (ed.), The Haitian Declaration of Independence: Creation, Context, and Legacy (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016).Google Scholar
Geggus, David, Haitian Revolutionary Studies (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Parkinson, Robert, The Common Cause: Making Race and Nation in the American Revolution (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2019).Google Scholar
Taylor, Alan, The Internal Enemy: Slavery and the War in Virginia, 1772–1832 (New York: W. W. Norton, 2013).Google Scholar

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