The Age of Revolution: A Whole History
Speaker:
Louise Mirrer
Richard Rabinowitz
Ted Widmer
Laurent Dubois
Jeremy D. Popkin
Patrick Tardieu
Julia Gaffield
J. Michael Dash
Vincent Brown
Cathy Matson
Ashli White
Ira Berlin
Jeremy Adelman
David Armitage
Thomas Bender
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 9:00am
Event details
This conference focuses on the increased emphasis in recent decades by historians on the transnational history of the Atlantic world; the importance of the Caribbean in 18th-century politics, war and economy; links among the political revolutions in British North America, France and Saint-Domingue; the emergence of antislavery movements; and the enormous historical significance of the revolution in Saint-Domingue/Haiti. Continental breakfast at 9 am.

