GlobeColloquium
Radical Royalism in the Atlantic World
A cooperation of ReCentGlobe with the Global and European Studies Institute.
This event is held in English.
with Willem Klooster (Worcester)
In the early modern period, one remarkably widespread belief among the laboring classes of Europe and the Americas was that of a future realm of freedom guaranteed by monarchical rule. Largely dormant during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this belief stimulated numerous insurgencies during the age of revolutions (1775-1830). Who the benevolent monarch was depended on the context, but serfs often credited the Tsar of the Austrian emperor with the decision to liberate them, while slaves thought a European monarch had emancipated them. These revolts during the transition from early modernity to modernity have been largely obscured by the historiographical focus on revolutionary republicanism.
Prof. Dr. Willem Klooster specialises in the history of the Atlantic world (15th to 19th century). He teaches comparative colonialism (America), the age of the Atlantic revolutions (1776-1824) and the history of the Caribbean.
The event will be moderated by Prof. Dr. Matthas Middell.
ZOOM access: https://events.recentglobe.org/gczoom