Transatlantic Revolutionary Cultures, 1789-1861 (Atlantic World)

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Transatlantic Revolutionary Cultures, 1789-1861 makes an interdisciplinary contribution to the cultural and intellectual history of the long nineteenth century. It argues that the cultural dimensions of the political and social upheavals in Europe and the Americas were fundamentally transnational. Transatlantic Revolutionary Cultures, 1789–1861 Contents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Contributors Editors’ Introduction 1 Visions and Concepts 2 Visions 3 Concepts Bibliography Visions Black Jacobins: Towards a Genealogy of a Transatlantic Trope 1 “It was gravely inaccurate in fact:” C. L. R. James’ Black Jacobins and Misappropriation 2 Richard Newton’s “A Real San Culotte!!” (1792): The Black Sans-culotte as the Gothic Specter of Transatlantic Revolution 3 Edmund Burke’s Counterrevolutionary Invectives against the Black Jacobins in Letters on a Regicide Peace (1796) and James Gillray’s caricature “Promised Horrors of a French Invasion” (1796) 4 “The Fate of St. Domingo Awaits You”: Robert Wedderburn and his Vision of Transatlantic Proto-Proletarian Revolution Bibliography A Transatlantic Constitution in a Local Context:Symbolic Acts of Mediation and RevolutionaryPractice in the Context of the Constitution of1812 in Yucatán 1 The Constitution of 1812 as a Transatlantic Project 2 Between Ceremonies to Secure Continuity and Revolutionary Practices: The Symbolic Communication and Reception of the New Constitutional Order in Yucatán 3 The Limits of Transatlantic Cohesion: Interpretations of the Cádiz Constitutional Order as of 1820 Conclusion Archives/Abbreviations Bibliography Newspapers Performing William Tell in the Transatlantic World1 1 Knowles’s William Tell in Britain 2 Knowles’s William Tell in the United States 3 Shifts in American Theater 4 Astor Place 5 Conclusion Bibliography Of “Puppets and People:” The Revolution of 1848 on Stage 1 Making Sense of the Revolution in Europe: Stage Plays as Narrative Frameworks Between Allegories and the News 2 Adam Würth’s The Gipsy Queen of Hungary: The History of the Hungarian Revolution Between Fact and Fiction 3 The Gipsy Queen in America: Fact and Fiction on the Stage 4 Conclusion Bibliography Garibaldi’s Shirt: Fashion and the Making and Unmaking of Revolutionary Bodies 1 Beards, Wool Shirts, and Turkish Trousers 2 Tailoring Heroes 3 Consuming the Revolution Bibliography Concepts Transatlantic George Washington: Continental Liberal Historians in Search of a Hero, 1830–1848 1 Writing American History in Europe before 1848 2 George Washington as a Hero of Conservative Liberalism 3 Virtue vs. Ambition Bibliography From Central Europe to Central America: Forty-Eighters in the Filibuster Wars of the Mid-Nineteenth Century 1 Lajos Kossuth, the “Hungarian George Washington” 2 Kossuth’s Aborted Invasion of Haiti 3 “Any cause of liberty … was already half our cause”: Hungarian Filibusters in Central Ameria Bibliography “We will have true peace only when we will have the United States of Europe”: The United States of America as a Constitutional Model for Italy during the Risorgimento? 1 Introduction 2 Transfer of Information and Knowledge between North America and Italy 3 Transformation of American Constitutional Ideas and Concepts during the Risorgimento. The Case of Carlo Cattaneo 4 Conclusion Bibliography Reform, not Revolution! Anti-Revolutionary Thinking in the Works of Jane Addams and Lorenz von Stein: A Sociology of Knowledge Approach 1 Reform and Revolution 2 How to Avert Revolution through Reform: Middle-class Anti-revolutionary Thinking 3 Radical Reform: Jane Addams 4 Socialism and the Power of the Nation State: Lorenz von Stein 5 Anti-revolutionary Thinking and Middle-class Habitus in Addams and Stein Bibliography Epilogue Bibliography Index