Ireland and America: Empire, Revolution, and Sovereignty (The Revolutionary Age)

By: Francis D. Cogliano and Nicholas Canny and Gordon S. Wood and T. H. Breen and Eliga Gould and Matthew P. Dziennik and Trevor Burnard and S. Max Edelson and Robert G. Ingram and Rachel Banke and Andrew J. O’Shaughnessy and Jessica Choppin Roney and Annette Gordon-Reed and Christa Dierksheide and Peter S. Onuf

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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