Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn
November 11, 2011 - April 15, 2012
http://www.nyhistory.org/node/580
Exhibition will travel; venues TBD
In November 2011, the New-York Historical Society presents Revolution!, a path-breaking exhibition and educational initiative. The exhibition explores the enormous transformations in the world’s politics and culture between the 1763 triumph of the British Empire in the Seven Years' War and the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Responding to growing public interest in the history of other cultures, Revolution! compares three globally influential revolutions in America, France and Haiti. But while these revolutions have usually been told exclusively as chapters within national histories, now for the first time, the story of the 18th-century Atlantic revolutions is explained as a global narrative.
Opposing European imperial authorities, diverse men and women of the Atlantic world—natives of Africa, Europe and the Americas—argued with both pamphlets and armaments. Their first major outbursts in the American Revolution launched radical ideas through the West. These in turn drew many Britons to the antislavery crusade, then inspired a revolt against monarchy in France, and finally spawned the astonishing insurrection on the island of Saint Domingue, leading to the world’s only successful slave revolt and the founding of the first nation based on equality and emancipation, Haiti. The exhibition features treasured paintings, drawings and prints from New-York Historical as well as items from more than 20 collections in Britain, France and the United States; historical documents, maps and manuscripts; audio-visual presentations and computer-interactive learning stations; and inventive and beautiful works of art commissioned for the exhibition. Linking the attack on monarchism and aristocracy to the struggle against slavery, Revolution! shows how freedom, equality and the sovereignty of the people became universal goals. These activists invented the notions of human rights that still fire the desire for justice everywhere.
Richard Rabinowitz, founder and president of American History Workshop, serves as chief exhibition curator. Lynda B. Kaplan acted as curatorial director and media producer. Thomas Bender of New York University and Laurent Dubois of Duke University have served as the co-chief historians for Revolution!, drawing on the scholarship of an advisory committee of distinguished historians and specialists.
__________________November 11, 2011 - April 15, 2012
http://www.nyhistory.org/node/580
Exhibition will travel; venues TBD
In November 2011, the New-York Historical Society presents Revolution!, a path-breaking exhibition and educational initiative. The exhibition explores the enormous transformations in the world’s politics and culture between the 1763 triumph of the British Empire in the Seven Years' War and the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Responding to growing public interest in the history of other cultures, Revolution! compares three globally influential revolutions in America, France and Haiti. But while these revolutions have usually been told exclusively as chapters within national histories, now for the first time, the story of the 18th-century Atlantic revolutions is explained as a global narrative.
Opposing European imperial authorities, diverse men and women of the Atlantic world—natives of Africa, Europe and the Americas—argued with both pamphlets and armaments. Their first major outbursts in the American Revolution launched radical ideas through the West. These in turn drew many Britons to the antislavery crusade, then inspired a revolt against monarchy in France, and finally spawned the astonishing insurrection on the island of Saint Domingue, leading to the world’s only successful slave revolt and the founding of the first nation based on equality and emancipation, Haiti. The exhibition features treasured paintings, drawings and prints from New-York Historical as well as items from more than 20 collections in Britain, France and the United States; historical documents, maps and manuscripts; audio-visual presentations and computer-interactive learning stations; and inventive and beautiful works of art commissioned for the exhibition. Linking the attack on monarchism and aristocracy to the struggle against slavery, Revolution! shows how freedom, equality and the sovereignty of the people became universal goals. These activists invented the notions of human rights that still fire the desire for justice everywhere.
Richard Rabinowitz, founder and president of American History Workshop, serves as chief exhibition curator. Lynda B. Kaplan acted as curatorial director and media producer. Thomas Bender of New York University and Laurent Dubois of Duke University have served as the co-chief historians for Revolution!, drawing on the scholarship of an advisory committee of distinguished historians and specialists.
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