The age of revolutions: and the generations who made it

Part I. The weight of the old regime, 1760-1783. A hierarchical world / Atlantic world

The first imperial crisis / British North America

The American Revolution / North America

The revolutions in the Andes / Peru

Part II. Revolutions, limited, 1778-1798. News of war / Europe

the top-down Revolutions / Netherlands and United States

The revolution begins in France / Paris

The politics of crowds and clubs / France

The assult on slavery / Saint-Domingue

Part III. Mass movements and mass cultures, 1795-1815. Ruins and reconstruction / Atlantic World

The limits of republicanism / Genoa and the United States

The new social order emerges / North and South America

The Haitian state / North America and the Caribbean

A cultural transformation / Europe

Part IV. Revolution, fulfilled and failed, 1805-1825. The worlds Napoleon made / Europe

The journeys of Louis-Augustin / France and the United States

The revolutions curtailed / United States and Haiti

The constitutions promulgated / Spanish America

The nation under arms / South America.