chapter 16

The Atlantic revolution in North America, France, Haiti and Latin America took place in a large amount of the global framework. They occurred in the context of expensive wars, weakening states and destabilizing process of commercialization. The Atlantic revolution were destabilizing in various ways compared to the upheavals elsewhere. The wars that strained European imperial states like Britain, France, Spain were all global rather than regional. Then the Atlantic revolutions were distinctive in that they were closely connect to each other. The Atlantic revolution shared a set of common ideas. The ideas is that the Atlantic revolution derived from the European Enlightenment and were shared across the ocean in newspaper, books, and pamphlets. Human political and social arrangements could be engineered and improved by human action.