The first ANR-funded conference was organized by Eric Schnakenbourg (CRHIA/Nantes U) and aimed to place the Thirteen Colonies in an Atlantic and hemispheric context of Empires, diplomatic relations and the circulation of people, ideas and goods. In a first panel, Trevor Burnard, Karim Ghorbal and Françoise Le Jeune invited us to place the revolution in its British imperial context, taking into account British challenges to the idea of Empire, or the reinvention of its administration after the loss of the Thirteen Colonies. Giulio Talini, Eric Schnakenbourg and Victor Enthoven then addressed the economic, diplomatic and commercial impact of American independence on the West Indies, with the advent of a new diplomatic actor. Extending the West Indian question and linking it to that of race, Ashli White, Andy Cabot and Manuel Covo questioned the circulation of a reworked European political culture, particularly in the West Indian context. Extending this continental and hemispheric opening, Emmanuelle Perez-Tisserant, Gilles Havard and Frédéric Spillemacker addressed the Revolution’s connections with the West and California, with Iberian America and with indigenous nations
