Tom Cutterham: Empire Ablaze | Buch

Cover: 9781836741459 | Empire Ablaze | The American Revolution and the Atlantic Working Class

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Beschreibung

As revolution raged in North America, James Aitken – house painter, highwayman, and escaped indentured servant – wandered the colonies formulating a dramatic plan to cripple the British navy by destroying Portsmouth dockyard and Bristol harbour. He was determined to burn down the empire to hasten American independence.

Through this overlooked story of British insurrection and America’s founding, historian Tom Cutterham explores how an emerging transatlantic working class experienced the transformation and crisis of Britain’s eighteenth-century empire. Behind this new sense of class consciousness was the Enlightenment philosophy that had informed popular ideas about the universal rights and the corruption of imperial authorities.

Reframing the American Revolution as a British civil war, Empire Ablaze offers a fresh account of the United States’ birth and the origins of radical politics in Britain, finding insights for the revolutionary struggles of our own crisis-ridden times.

Über den Autor

Tom Cutterham is an associate professor of United States history at the University of Birmingham, and the author of Gentlemen Revolutionaries: Power and Justice in the New American Republic. He has written for Jacobin, the Nation, and the New Republic, as well as a handful of scholarly journals.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part 1
Chapter 1, Virginia
Chapter 2, Edinburgh
Chapter 3, London
Chapter 4, Philadelphia

Part 2
Chapter 5, Theory
Chapter 6, Practice
Chapter 7, Captivity
Chapter 8, Freedom
Conclusion

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2026
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9781836741459
ISBN-10:	1836741456
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Cutterham, Tom
Hersteller:	Verso Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	211 x 144 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Tom Cutterham
Erscheinungsdatum:	21.07.2026
Gewicht:	0,274 kg