DAVID ARMITAGE is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University, USA. He is the author or editor of ten books, including The Ideological Origins of the British Empire, The Declaration of Independence: A Global History and (ed) The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800 (2nd edition).SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM is Professor and Doshi Chair of Indian history at UCLA. His recent publications include Explorations in Connected History and (with Muzaffar Alam) Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400-1800.

• Introduction: Causation, Connection and Comparison; D.Armitage & S.SubrahmanyamSparks from Altar of '76: International Repercussions and Reconsiderations of the American Revolution; G.B.NashThe French Revolution in Global Context; L.HuntRevolutionary Exiles: The American Loyalist and French Émigré Diasporas; M.JasanoffIberian Passages: Continuity and Change in the South Atlantic; J.AdelmanThe Caribbean in the Age of Revolution; D.C.GeggusThe Dynamics of History in Africa and the Atlantic 'Age of Revolutions'; J.C.MillerPlaying Muslim: Bonaparte's Army of the Orient and Euro-Muslim Creolization; J.ColeImperial Repercussions: South Asia and the World, c. 1760-1840; R. TraversRevolutionary Europe and the Destruction of Java's Old Order, 1808-1830; P.CareyTheir Own Path to Crisis? Social Change, State-Building and the Limits of Qing Expansion, c. 1770-1840; K.PomeranzAfterword; C.A.Bayly.

'The perceptive and novel essays in this volume begin a wider re-conceptualization of global history.' C. A. Bayly, Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, University of Cambridge. 'A collection of important and thoughtful essays discussing -- but also interrogating the claim that the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries witnessed a 'global crisis'.' - Linda Colley, Shelby M. C. Davis 1958 Professor of History, Princeton University 'A hugely welcome project that connects with a major debate of growing interest and importance, with outstanding authors and chapters.' - John Darwin, Beit University Lecturer in the History of the British Commonwealth, University of Oxford