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The Rediscovery of America

Transatlantic Crosscurrents in an Age of Revolution

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  • © 1998

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  1. Stuart Andrews
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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
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    2. Discovery and Rediscovery: Planters, Puritans and Philosophes

      • Stuart Andrews
      Pages 3-16

  3. Founding Fathers in Europe

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-18
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    2. Porcelain and Revolutionary Principles: Franklin and the French

      • Stuart Andrews
      Pages 19-30

    3. American Encyclopédiste: Jefferson at Home and Abroad

      • Stuart Andrews
      Pages 31-42

    4. Reluctant Philosophe: John Adams and Republican Government

      • Stuart Andrews
      Pages 43-55

  6. Images and Visions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-146
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    2. Armchair Philosophy: Raynal’s Bestseller

      • Stuart Andrews
      Pages 147-158

    3. American Farmer: Hector St John de Crèvecoeur

      • Stuart Andrews
      Pages 159-169

    4. Women and Emigrants: Mary Wollstonecraft and Gilbert Imlay

      • Stuart Andrews
      Pages 170-181
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About this book

The Rediscovery of America features some twenty representatives of England, France and America, whose careers in some sense straddled the Atlantic in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. While not establishing causal links between the American and French Revolutions, the collective weight of these individual responses to the new America supports the idea of an 'Atlantic Revolution'. This study of the writings and transatlantic experiences of the revolutionary generation shows the power of American images in shaping political rhetoric, if not political reality.

About the author

STUART ANDREWS was a scholar of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, in the 1950s, after national service in the Parachute Brigade. He is author of three other books on the eighteenth century, and of numerous articles and reviews. Besides teaching his career has included such part-time roles as librarian, editor of a professional journal, school inspector and freelance lecturer. He has also been Headmaster of Norwich School and Clifton College.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Rediscovery of America

  • Book Subtitle: Transatlantic Crosscurrents in an Age of Revolution

  • Authors: Stuart Andrews

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26934-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Stuart Andrews 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-26936-5Published: 01 January 1998

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-26934-1Published: 15 October 1998

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 257

  • Topics: History of the Americas, Political Science, History of Early Modern Europe

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