Liberty! Égalité! Independencia! : print culture, Enlightenment, and revolution in the Americas, 1776-1838 : papers from a conference at the American Antiquarian Society in June 2006
Format:
Book
Language:
English
Imprint:
Worcester [Mass.] : American Antiquarian Society, c2007
9781929545469, 1929545460, 9781929545469 (alk. paper), and 1929545460 (alk. paper)
Description:
215 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Notes:
Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, v. 116, pt. 2 (Oct. 2006)
Bibliographic Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Introduction / Caroline Fuller Sloat -- 'We declare you independent whether you wish it or not': The print culture of early filibusterism / David S. Shields -- Fear as a political construct: imagining the revolution and the nation in Peruvian newspapers, 1791-1824 / Mariselle Meléndez -- Written constitutions and the unenumerated rights / Eric Slauter -- Print culture and the Haitian revolution: the written word and the spoken word / David Geggus -- The Abbé Gregoire and the Atlantic republic of letters / Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall -- Writing back to empire: Juan Pablo Viscardo y Guzman's 'Letter to the Spanish Americans' / Karen Stolley -- Carribean revolution and print publics: Leonora Sansay and 'The Secret History of the Haitian Revolution' / Elizabeth Maddock Dillon -- Llorente's readers in Americas / Nancy Vogeley -- Daniel Webster and the making of modern liberty in the Atlantic World / Sandra M. Gustafson -- Closing the last chapter of the Atlantic Revolution: the 1837-1838 rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada / Michel Ducharme.