AHR Forum
Revolutions in the Americas

Political revolt and its consequences are the subjects of this Forum. The four essays examine revolutions in different parts of the Americas during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Jack P. Greene analyzes the revolt that created the United States. Franklin W. Knight assesses the Haitian Revolution and its aftermath. Virginia Gueda examines the process and results of Mexican independence. And Jaime E. Rodríguez O. surveys revolutions in Spanish America while also integrating central points from the other essays into his analysis. Together, the essays explore revolutions as transforming events but also as distinct events that produce particular transformations. The authors do so by analyzing critical issues such as the depth of the changes produced by each revolution, the internal and external context of each revolt, the spatial, class, racial, and ethnic dimensions of each struggle, and fate of each revolution. By presenting these American revolutions in a comparative analysis, the Forum makes a significant contribution to the study of democratic revolutions in the Western hemisphere as well in other places and times.

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