'The perceptive and novel essays in this volume begin a wider re-conceptualization of global history.' C. A. Bayly, Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, University of Cambridge.

Introduction: Causation, Connection and Comparison; D.Armitage & S.Subrahmanyam
Sparks from Altar of '76: International Repercussions and Reconsiderations of the American Revolution; G.B.Nash
The French Revolution in Global Context; L.Hunt
Revolutionary Exiles: The American Loyalist and French Émigré Diasporas; M.Jasanoff
Iberian Passages: Continuity and Change in the South Atlantic; J.Adelman
The Caribbean in the Age of Revolution; D.C.Geggus
The Dynamics of History in Africa and the Atlantic 'Age of Revolutions'; J.C.Miller
Playing Muslim: Bonaparte's Army of the Orient and Euro-Muslim Creolization; J.Cole
Imperial Repercussions: South Asia and the World, c. 1760-1840; R. Travers
Revolutionary Europe and the Destruction of Java's Old Order, 1808-1830; P.Carey
Their Own Path to Crisis? Social Change, State-Building and the Limits of Qing Expansion, c. 1770-1840; K.Pomeranz
Afterword; C.A.Bayly

DAVID ARMITAGE is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University, USA. He is the author or editor of ten books, including The Ideological Origins of the British Empire, The Declaration of Independence: A Global History and (ed) The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800 (2nd edition).
 
SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM is Professor and Doshi Chair of Indian history at UCLA. His recent publications include Explorations in Connected History and (with Muzaffar Alam) Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400-1800.