Selected as a finalist for the 2016 George Washington Prize sponsored by George Washington's Mount Vernon, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and Washington College's C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience.
“A tour de force. Hugely informative and a joy to read, this is global history at its best.”—Richard Whatmore, author of Against War and Empire: Geneva, Britain, and France in the Eighteenth Century
“Revolutions without Borders is a pathbreaking work. It brings supposedly marginal places and little-known figures, including women, into the center of a transnational narrative, demonstrating the intersection of sentimentality and politics on both sides of the Atlantic.”—Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard University
“In this riveting and elegant book, Janet Polasky weaves together stories usually told separately about the many late eighteenth-century revolutions. This is an example to be followed in the new modes of transnational, Atlantic and global history.”—Lynn Hunt, author of Writing History in the Global Era
“Significantly enhancing how previous scholars perceived the Atlantic world as spawning related but clearly discrete revolutions, this elegantly written book instead evokes a movement whose participants ebb and flow across borders, connected through print and personal ties.”—Jack Censer, George Mason University
“A thrilling, moving, lyrical account of the Atlantic revolutions. Janet Polasky weaves together a remarkably diverse range of sources and narratives to reveal the cosmopolitan spirit of the revolutionary era and its role in the making of the nation-state.”—Malick W. Ghachem, author of The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution