Topic > The Age of Revolutions - 1529

) What do you think was the most important achievement of the Age of Revolutions? There were several vital products of the Age of Revolutions, but the most important was the introduction of post-colonial attitudes with the era's need for self-government away from overseas empires. This was achieved through democracy and constitutions which still represent the most important legacy existing in the modern world. This is the result that corporations were able to create influential works and change the way corporations operated on a daily basis with the United States composing the Declaration of Independence in 1776 establishing the cornerstone of this period paradoxically of an era of stability and anarchy. This essay aims to support the claim that postcolonialism, as a result of the Age of Revolutions, guided significant events and personalities even after the formation of the New World with the help of liberal thinking established by the Age of Enlightenment. Without the identification of postcolonial ideas, the Age of Revolutions would not have been an ideologically productive period. It is unimaginable for any historian to describe the Age of Revolutions without referring to the American Declaration of Independence, the keystone and symbol of freedom from empires and self-determination of a state. Within the article they characterized and reflected the beliefs of the thirteen colonies with their postcolonial attitudes that pushed their willpower to segregate themselves from the government of the British Parliament. It meant new forms of national identity, separate from imperial states that exploited both natural resources and indigenous populations, depriving new settlements of sovereign protection...... half of document ......rd University Press, 2008) , pp. 186‐196.• David Armitage, “The Declaration of Independence in Global 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, June 25, 1853.• Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels, Communist Manifesto, (Moscow: Progress Publishers 1948).• Naoroji, The Grand Little Man of India: Dadabhai Naoroji: Speeches and Writings, edited by 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).