Americomania and the French Revolution debate in Britain, 1789 - 1802

Utopianism in practice : the American front of the French Revolution in Britain, 17891802 -- "The war of systems": print culture and the institutionalization of the political divide in the 1790s -- "Cultivators of the earth": the American crisis and the emergence of the freehold...

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1. Verfasser: Verhoeven, Wilhelmus M. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY u.a. Cambridge University Press 2013
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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Zusammenfassung:Utopianism in practice : the American front of the French Revolution in Britain, 17891802 -- "The war of systems": print culture and the institutionalization of the political divide in the 1790s -- "Cultivators of the earth": the American crisis and the emergence of the freehold farmer, 1763 -- 1783 -- "Rabies agri": or, wilderness for sale -- "The calculated rise of the American empire": the radicalization of American utopianism -- "The mania of emigration": new philosophers in the wilderness -- "The precious pearl of liberty": from Newgate Prison to Ohiopiomingo -- "Come to these Arcadians regions where there is room for millions": politics for the people -- "Look before you leap": the demonization of Jacobin America -- "Parrying the enemy with their own weapons": dystopianism and the popular discourse of fear -- Postscript : "mania reformatio" the demise of transatlantic utopianism.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XII, 387 S.
Ill., Kt.
ISBN:1107040191
1-107-04019-1
9781107040199
978-1-107-04019-9