How Global Was the Age of Revolutions? The Case of Mount Lebanon, 1821
This article addresses the question of the geographical scope of the ‘age of revolutions’ (c.1750–1850) through the case of a peasant uprising in Mount Lebanon in 1821. This uprising had similarities with recent and contemporary revolutions and rebellions, which have led some to suggest the influenc...
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ftunivnorthumb:oai:nrl.northumbria.ac.uk:42680 2023-05-15T17:32:21+02:00 How Global Was the Age of Revolutions? The Case of Mount Lebanon, 1821 Hill, Peter 2021-03-01 text https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/42680/ https://doi.org/10.1017/s1740022820000145 https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/42680/1/Peter_Hill_How_global_was_the_age_of_revolutions_The_Case_of_Mount_Lebanon_1821_AAM.pdf en eng Cambridge University Press https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/42680/1/Peter_Hill_How_global_was_the_age_of_revolutions_The_Case_of_Mount_Lebanon_1821_AAM.pdf Hill, Peter (2021) How Global Was the Age of Revolutions? The Case of Mount Lebanon, 1821. Journal of Global History, 16 (1). pp. 65-84. ISSN 1740-0228 cc_by_nc_nd_4_0 CC-BY-NC-ND V100 History by period V200 History by area Article PeerReviewed 2021 ftunivnorthumb https://doi.org/10.1017/s1740022820000145 2022-09-25T06:11:45Z This article addresses the question of the geographical scope of the ‘age of revolutions’ (c.1750–1850) through the case of a peasant uprising in Mount Lebanon in 1821. This uprising had similarities with recent and contemporary revolutions and rebellions, which have led some to suggest the influence of the ideas of the French Revolution of 1789 or the Greek Revolution of 1821. This article argues that influence at the level of ideas was unimportant, but that the similarities can plausibly be traced to similar and connected contexts at the level of political economy, as the expansion and crisis of military-fiscal states provoked opposition ‘from below’ and renegotiations of sovereignty. This focus on political economy rather than genealogies of ideas can then help define an ‘age of revolutions’ extending beyond Europe and the north Atlantic into the Ottoman empire, Latin America, and other regions. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Northumbria University, Newcastle: Northumbria Research Link (NRL) Journal of Global History 16 1 65 84 |
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This article addresses the question of the geographical scope of the ‘age of revolutions’ (c.1750–1850) through the case of a peasant uprising in Mount Lebanon in 1821. This uprising had similarities with recent and contemporary revolutions and rebellions, which have led some to suggest the influence of the ideas of the French Revolution of 1789 or the Greek Revolution of 1821. This article argues that influence at the level of ideas was unimportant, but that the similarities can plausibly be traced to similar and connected contexts at the level of political economy, as the expansion and crisis of military-fiscal states provoked opposition ‘from below’ and renegotiations of sovereignty. This focus on political economy rather than genealogies of ideas can then help define an ‘age of revolutions’ extending beyond Europe and the north Atlantic into the Ottoman empire, Latin America, and other regions. |
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