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The Americas in the Age of Revolution : 1750-1850
The Americas in the Age of Revolution 17501850 Author:Lester Langley In this masterly work, Lester D. Langley compares political and social histories of three revolutions in the Americas: the American Revolution in 1776, the 1791 slave revolt in the French colony that became Haiti, and the prolonged Spanish American struggle for independence. Langley explores the characteristics that distinguished each upheaval, ... more »and he shows how the legacies of the revolutionary age affect virtually every modern political issue.« less