@article{717785,
      recid = {717785},
      author = {Polasky, Janet L.},
      title = {Revolutions without borders /},
      pages = {xvi, 371 pages:},
      abstract = {"Nation-based histories cannot do justice to the rowdy,  radical interchange of ideas around the Atlantic world  during the tumultuous years from 1776 to 1804. National  borders were powerless to restrict the flow of exciting new  visions of human rights and universal freedom. This  expansive history explores how the revolutionary ideas that  spurred the American and French revolutions reverberated  far and wide, connecting European, North American, African,  and Caribbean peoples more closely than ever before.  Historian Janet Polasky focuses on the eighteenth-century  travelers who spread new notions of liberty and equality.  It was an age of itinerant revolutionaries, she shows, who  ignored borders and found allies with whom to imagine a  borderless world. As paths crossed, ideas entangled. The  author investigates these ideas and how they were  disseminated long before the days of instant communications  and social media or even an international postal system.  Polasky analyzes the paper records--books, broadsides,  journals, newspapers, novels, letters, and more--to follow  the far-reaching trails of revolutionary zeal. What emerges  clearly from rich historic records is that the dream of  liberty among America's founders was part of a much larger  picture. It was a dream embraced throughout the far-flung  regions of the Atlantic world"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/717785},
}