The Age of Revolution explores revolutions - in the United States, France, Latin America, and Russia as well as the Industrial Revolution - from the prior political, economic, and societal conditions, to the grievances that built into an eruption of popular anger and social upheaval. The immediate aftermath and global ripple effects over time are also considered.

Table of Contents

• Part 1: The American Revolution: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
• INTRODUCTION
• PRELUDE TO A REVOLUTION
• REVOLUTION!
• FORGING PEACE AND A NEW AMERICAN NATION
• THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION AND THE NEW REPUBLIC
• FOUNDING FATHERS
• GEORGE WASHINGTON: REVOLUTIONARY LEADER
• Part 2: The French Revolution, Napoleon, and the Republic: Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
• INTRODUCTION
• PREREVOLUTIONARY FRANCE
• CAUSES OF THE REVOLUTION
• THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ANCIEN RÉGIME
• THE FIRST FRENCH REPUBLIC
• THE NAPOLEONIC ERA
• Part 3: The Industrial Revolution
• INTRODUCTION
• SOCIETY BEFORE THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
• TECHNOLOGY IN THE ERA PRECEDING THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
• THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION BEGINS IN ENGLAND
• THE SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND A CHANGING SOCIETY
• TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
• Part 4: Revolution and Independence in Latin America
• INTRODUCTION
• LATIN AMERICA UNDER COLONIZATION
• CAUSES OF REVOLUTION
• THE SOUTHERN MOVEMENT IN SOUTH AMERICA
• THE NORTH AND THE CULMINATION OF INDEPENDENCE
• MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA
• BRAZIL
• BUILDING NEW NATIONS
• THE POSTINDEPENDENCE STATES
• Part 5: The Russian Revolution
• INTRODUCTION
• RUSSIA IN THE 19TH CENTURY
• THE BACKDROP OF REVOLUTION AND THE LAST YEARS OF TSARDOM
• THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION OF 1917 AND THE TREATIES OF BREST-LITOVSK
• CIVIL WAR AND WAR COMMUNISM
• THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY AND COLLECTIVISM
• GLOSSARY
• BIBLIOGRAPHY