Global Impact of the Atlantic Revolutions

A final distinctive feature of the Atlantic revolutions lies in their immense global

impact, extending well beyond the Atlantic world. The armies of revolutionary France,

for example, invaded Egypt, Germany, Poland, and Russia,

carrying seeds of change. The ideals that animated these Atlantic revolutions inspired

efforts in many countries to abolish slavery, to extend the right to vote,

to develop constitutions, and to secure greater equality for women. Nationalism, perhaps the most

potent ideology of the modern era, was nurtured in the Atlantic revolutions

and shaped much of nineteenth- and twentieth-century world history. The ideas of human