Chapter 16:
Atlantic Revolutions in a Global Context
"The Atlantic basin had become a world of intellectual and cultural exchange as well as one of commercial and biological interaction. The ideas that animated the Atlantic revolutions derived from the European Enlightenment and were shared across the ocean in newspapers, books, and pamphlets. At the heart of these ideas was the radical notion that human political and social arrangements could be engineered, and improved, by human action."
This era was distinctive and it resembled what we fight for today. "New ideas of liberty, equality, fee trade, religious tolerance, republicanism, and human rationality" many of our fellow citizens have gambled their lives for this right.
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