Ronaldo Angelo Johnson, Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy during the American Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2025).
In conjunction with Ronaldo Johnson and Cornell University Press, Age of Revolutions is proud to offer a revolutionary raffle of Entangled Alliances.
About Entangles Alliances
The American Revolution occurred between two of the greatest diplomatic achievements of the eighteenth century: the peace treaties at Paris in 1763 and 1783. The first treaty in 1763 changed the European colonial landscape of North America and the Caribbean. The second treaty affirmed the independence of the first republic in the western Atlantic world. In between, American patriots and rebels from the French colony Saint-Domingue (later Haiti) advanced ideals of freedom, liberty, and equality, while allying across racial lines against European tyranny.
Entangled Alliances–drawing on original French & English sources—is an elegantly crafted and intellectually rigorous reinterpretation of the American Revolution through analysis of diplomacy during two decades of hemispheric transformation The book is a transnational history of the American Revolution, fusing the search for freedom by founding generations in the United States and Saint-Domingue into a coherent story of collective resistance during the most explosive period of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
Initial Reviews
“With a capacious and inventive approach to diplomacy that persistently emphasizes individuals, Entangled Alliances advances our understanding of the relationship between British North America and French Saint-Domingue. Ronald Angelo Johnson recovers the central contributions of diverse Black actors to the entwined revolutionary histories of these two regions.”
Ashli White, University of Miami, author of Revolutionary Things
“In this exceptional book, Ronald Angelo Johnson convincingly demonstrates that revolutions in the United States and Haiti interacted in highly significant, racially-charged ways, and that these had wide-ranging international implications. Entangled Alliances makes an important contribution to the scholarly discussion of the age of Atlantic Revolutions.”
Steven J. Brady, George Washington University, author of Chained to History
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