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Wim Klooster. Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History
Wim Klooster. Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History. New York: New York University Press, 2009. vii + 239 pp. ISBN 978-0-8147-4788-9, $65.00 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-8147-4789-6, $22.00 (paper)
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In spite of the obvious impacts French, American, Haitian, and Spanish-American revolutions had on each other and the relatively narrow period in which they occurred (approximately 1770–1824), it would appear that no one before this new work by Wim Klooster has attempted to compare the four in a single volume. This "Age of Atlantic Revolutions" has produced a
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