What’s the Significance?
North American Revolution, 785–87
French Revolution, 787–91
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, 788
Napoleon Bonaparte, 791–92
Haitian Revolution, 792–94
Spanish American revolutions, 794–98
abolitionist movement, 798–801
nationalism, 801–05
Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 805
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 806
maternal feminism, 807
Kartini, 808–09
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism (1991). A now-classic though controversial examination of the process by which national identities were created.
Bonnie S. Anderson, Joyous Greetings: The First International Women’s Movement, 1830–1860 (2000). Describes the beginnings of transatlantic feminism.
David Armitage and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, eds., The Age of Revolutions in Global Context (2010). A recent collection of scholarly essays that seeks to explore revolutions within a global framework.
Laurent Dubois and John Garrigus, Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789–1804 (2006). A brief and up-to-date summary of the Haitian Revolution, combined with a number of documents.
Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848 (1999). A highly respected survey by a well-known British historian.
Lynn Hunt, ed., The French Revolution and Human Rights (1996). A collection of documents, with a fine introduction by a prominent scholar.
“Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution,” http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/. A collection of cartoons, paintings, and artifacts illustrating the French Revolution.