Volume II delves into the revolutions of France, Europe, and Haiti, with particular focus on the French Revolution and the changes it wrought. The demarcation between property and power, and the changes in family life, religious practices, and socio-economic relations are explored, as well as the preoccupation with violence and terror, both of which were conspicuous aspects of the revolution. Simultaneous movements in England, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, and Poland-Lithuania are also discussed. The volume ends with the Haitian Revolution and its impact on neighboring countries, revealing how the revolution was comprised of several smaller revolutions, and how, once the independent black State of Haiti was established, an effort was made to fulfill the promises of freedom and equality.
Introduction Wim Klooster; Part I. France: 1. Overview of the French Revolution David Andress; 2. Abolishing feudalism Rafe Blaufarb; 3. The countryside Noelle Plack; 4. The revolution and the Atlantic: the society of the Friends of the Blacks Erica Johnson Edwards; 5. Tracking the French Revolution in the United States: sovereignty, representation, absolutism, and democracy Matthew Rainbow Hale; 6. The French Revolution and Spanish America Clément Thibaud; 7. Violence and the French Revolution Howard G. Brown; 8. Jacobins and terror in the French Revolution Marisa Linton; 9. The Directory, Thermidor, and the transformation of the revolution Philippe Bourdin; 10. Rethinking gender, sexuality, and the French Revolution Jennifer Heuer; Part II. Western, Central, and Eastern Europe: 11. Switzerland: local agency and French intervention: the Helvetic Republic Marc H. Lerner; 12. Revolution at Geneva. Genevans in revolution Richard Whatmore; 13. The modernity of the Dutch Revolution: ideas, action, permeation Joris Oddens; 14. The United States of Belgium Janet Polasky; 15. Revolution in England? Abolitionism Seymour Drescher; 16. The Irish Rebellion of 1798 Thomas Bartlett; 17. Italy: revolution and counterrevolution (1789–1799) John A. Davis; 18. Germany and the French Revolution Michael Rowe; 19. Reform and resistance: Hungary and the Habsburg monarchy, 1780–1795 Orsolya Szakály; 20. Poland–Lithuania in the age of the Atlantic Revolutions: Dilemmas of liberty Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski; 21. Transnational perspectives: the French Revolution, the sister republics, and the United States Annie Jourdan; Part III. Haiti: 22. Overview of the Haitian Revolution Robert D. Taber; 23. Saint-Domingue on the eve of the Revolution John Garrigus; 24. The Haitian Revolutions Bernard Gainot; 25. Toussaint Louverture, the cultivator system, and Haiti's independence (1798–1804) Philippe Girard; 26. Establishing a new nation: Haiti after independence, 1804–1843 Erin Zavitz; 27. Aspirations and actions of free people of color across the Caribbean Jessica Pierre-Louis; 28. The unruly Caribbean: reverberations of Saint-Domingue's rebellions in the Caribbean coast of New Granada and Venezuela, 1790–1800 Cristina Soriano; 29. The impact of the Haitian Revolution on the United States Ashli White.
Wim Klooster is the Robert H. and Virginia N. Scotland Chair and Professor of History and International Relations at Clark University. He is the (co-) author and (co-) editor of twelve books. His monograph The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth Century Atlantic World (2016) won the Biennial Book Award of the Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions and the Hendricks Award of the New Netherland Institute.
