Ireland and America - (The Revolutionary Age) by Patrick Griffin & Francis D Cogliano (Hardcover)

About the Book

"Ireland and America: Empire, Revolution, and Sovereignty is a collection of essays examining the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Atlantic, and the relationship between imperial reform and revolution through the prism of Ireland, America, and empire. By focusing on one in relation to the other as well as within an imperial whole, the volume uses a comparative angle to retell familiar stories and create new narratives of each place and of both places engaged over two centuries"--

Book Synopsis

Looking at America through the Irish prism and employing a comparative approach, leading and emerging scholars of early American and Atlantic history interrogate anew the relationship between imperial reform and revolution in Ireland and America, offering fascinating insights into the imperial whole of which both places were a part. Revolution would eventually stem from the ways the Irish and Americans looked to each other to make sense of imperial crisis wrought by reform, only to ultimately create two expanding empires in the nineteenth century in which the Irish would play critical roles.

Contributors Rachel Banke, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy * T. H. Breen, University of Vermont * Trevor Burnard, University of Hull * Nicholas Canny, National University of Ireland, Galway * Christa Dierksheide, University of Virginia * Matthew P. Dziennik, United States Naval Academy * S. Max Edelson, University of Virginia * Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University * Eliga Gould, University of New Hampshire * Robert G. Ingram, Ohio University * Peter S. Onuf, University of Virginia * Andrew J. O'Shaughnessy, International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello * Jessica Choppin Roney, Temple University * Gordon S. Wood, Brown University

Review Quotes

An important contribution to our growing understanding that America's revolution was one among many, shedding a comparative light on the definition and operation of imperial themes in Irish and American history

--Peter Thompson, University of Oxford

It was an age of revolution, it was an age of empire: above all, the late eighteenth century was an Age of Tumult not only in the Atlantic world but further afield. Taking Ireland as its point of departure, these outstanding - and provocative - essays from leading historians of colonial British America and of Ireland explore, investigate and interrogate the linkages, similarities and contrasts between the Irish and American resistance to, and embrace of, empire.

--Thomas Bartlett, University of Aberdeen

The contributors to Ireland and America... expose the hot tea of America's revolutionary legacy to the cooling saucer of Atlantic context.... These authors skillfully explore the swirling mass of actions and allegiances that defined the Atlantic world between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries.... The book [the editors] have assembled is an important contribution to the ongoing reevaluation of revolution and independence.

-- "The Journal of American History"

About the Author

Francis D. Cogliano is Professor of American History at the University of Edinburgh and author of Emperor of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson's Foreign Policy.

Patrick Griffin is Madden-Hennebry Family Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame and author of The Ties That Bind: A Study of the Age of Revolution.