Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism
- The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism
- The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- General Introduction
- Part i The Politics of Ethnicity, Nationhood, and Belonging in the Settings of Classical Civilizations
- Part ii Paradigm Shifts and Turning Points in the Era of Globalization, 1500 to the Present
- 7 Colonial Expansion and the Making of Nations: The Spanish Case
- 8 The Reformation and National Identity
- 9 Europe’s Eighteenth Century and the Quest for the Nation’s Origins
- 10 Empire, War, and Racial Hierarchy in the Making of the Atlantic Revolutionary Nations
- 11 The Rise of the Charismatic Nation: Romantic and Risorgimento Nationalism, Europe, 1800–1914
- 12 Revolution and Independence in Spanish America
- 13 A Tale of Two Cities: The American Civil War
- 14 The Cycle of Inevitability in Imperial and Republican Identities in China
- 15 Colonial Subjects and the Struggle for Self-Determination, 1880–1918
- 16 The First World War
- 17 Anticolonialism and Nationalism in the French Empire
- 18 Patriotism in the Second World War: Comparative Perspectives on Countries under Axis Occupation
- 19 Decolonization and the Cold War
- 20 1968: The Death of Nationalism?
- Conclusion to Part II
- Index
- References
10 - Empire, War, and Racial Hierarchy in the Making of the Atlantic Revolutionary Nations
from Part ii - Paradigm Shifts and Turning Points in the Era of Globalization, 1500 to the Present
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 October 2023
Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism
- The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism
- The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- General Introduction
- Part i The Politics of Ethnicity, Nationhood, and Belonging in the Settings of Classical Civilizations
- Part ii Paradigm Shifts and Turning Points in the Era of Globalization, 1500 to the Present
- 7 Colonial Expansion and the Making of Nations: The Spanish Case
- 8 The Reformation and National Identity
- 9 Europe’s Eighteenth Century and the Quest for the Nation’s Origins
- 10 Empire, War, and Racial Hierarchy in the Making of the Atlantic Revolutionary Nations
- 11 The Rise of the Charismatic Nation: Romantic and Risorgimento Nationalism, Europe, 1800–1914
- 12 Revolution and Independence in Spanish America
- 13 A Tale of Two Cities: The American Civil War
- 14 The Cycle of Inevitability in Imperial and Republican Identities in China
- 15 Colonial Subjects and the Struggle for Self-Determination, 1880–1918
- 16 The First World War
- 17 Anticolonialism and Nationalism in the French Empire
- 18 Patriotism in the Second World War: Comparative Perspectives on Countries under Axis Occupation
- 19 Decolonization and the Cold War
- 20 1968: The Death of Nationalism?
- Conclusion to Part II
- Index
- References
Summary
In 1954, the great African-American painter Jacob Lawrence conceived of a remarkable series of paintings that would, in his words, “depict the struggles of a people to create a nation and their attempt to build a democracy.” Initially, he had in mind a grand narrative beginning with the “causes and events leading into the American Revolutionary War” and ending in the early years of the twentieth century. As finally executed, Lawrence’s Struggle series of panels (1954–1956) extended chronologically from the 1770 Boston Massacre to the aftermath of the battle of New Orleans in 1815. Lawrence thereby placed the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 at the center of the path to American nationhood.
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Furet, François and Ozouf, Mona (eds.), The Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989).Google Scholar
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Parkinson, Robert, The Common Cause: Making Race and Nation in the American Revolution (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2019).Google Scholar
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