Age of Revolutions

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) What do you think was the most important outcome of the Age of Revolutions? There have been several vital products of the Age of Revolutions but most importantly was the introduction of post-colonial attitudes with the need of self-governess away from empires overseas. This was achieved through the democracy and constitutions which still are the most important legacy existing in the modern world. It this outcome that societies were able to create influential pieces of works and change how societies operated on a daily bases with the United States composing the Declaration of Independence in 1776 establishing the cornerstone of this period of paradoxically an era of stability and anarchy. This essay aims to support this claim that post-colonialism as an output of the Age of Revolutions drove the significant events and personalities even after the formation of the New World with the aid of liberal thought that was established back from the Enlightenment Age. Without the identification of post-colonial ideas, the Age of Revolutions would not have been such as ideologically productive time period. It is unimaginable for any historian to depict the Age of Revolutions without reference to the American Declaration of Independence, the keystone and symbol of freedom from empires and of self-determination of a state. Words within the article characterised and reflected the beliefs of the thirteen colonies with their post-colonial attitudes that drove their will power to segregate themselves from governance of the British parliament. It signified new forms of national identities, separated from imperial states that exploited the natural resources and both the indigenous population and depriving new settlements from sovereign protec... ... middle of paper ... ...rd University Press, 2008), pp. 186‐196. • David Armitage, “The Declaration of Independence in World Context”, OAH Magazine of History 18.3 (2004), 61‐66. • Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman and Jon Gjerde ed., “Virginia’s Statutes..” and “William Byrd..”, in Major Problems in American History, Volume 1 (Boston: Houghton MacMillan, 2002), pp. 43‐46. • John Cary, A Discourse of the Advantage of the African Trade to this Nation (London, 1712), pp. 1‐4. • Karl Marx, “The British Rule in India”, New York Herald Tribune, 25 June 1853. • Karl Marx & Fredrick Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party, (Moscow: Progress Publishers 1948). • Naoroji, The Grand Little Man of India: Dadabhai Naoroji: speeches & writings, ed A. Moin Zaidi (New Delhi: S. Chand, 1984), pp. 125‐148. • John Relly Beard, Toussaint L'Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography (Boston: James Redpath, 1863).

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