ABSTRACT
In the last decade or two, scholars have rushed to re-examine revolutionary experiences across the Atlantic, through the Americas, and more recently in imperial and global contexts. As Sarah Knott recently noted, the revolution in Revolution scholarship has had a curiously long and somewhat halting gestation period. Given the relative infancy of the field of the Age of Revolution, and the explosion of literature, there are of course many definitional questions yet to be explored let alone agreed upon. Peter Way's essay reminds us, the same imperial ambitions that ultimately led to the Age of Revolution were also deeply implicated in the successful spread of globalizing capitalism. Forrest Hylton's essay thus shows the promise of taking a new and oft-ignored perspective on the Age of Revolution, as well as the need to pay attention to the long histories of indigenous peoples in this era.
