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Book Synopsis The Idea of Europe and the Origins of the American Revolution by : D. H. Robinson
Download or read book The Idea of Europe and the Origins of the American Revolution written by D. H. Robinson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this path-breaking new history of early America, the imperial crisis, and the American Revolution, D. H. Robinson traces the formative impact of ideas about Europe and Europeanness on British-American politics and identity, touching on everything from international relations and nationalism, to news media and poetry.
Book Synopsis Europe’s American Revolution by : S. Newman
Download or read book Europe’s American Revolution written by S. Newman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-08-30 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians in the United States have argued that the ideals of the American Revolution have had an enduring significance outside their own country. The essays in this volume explore how the American Revolution has been constructed, defined and understood by Europeans from the 1770s, illustrating what it has meant in different countries.
Book Synopsis The Impact of the American Revolution Abroad by : Library of Congress
Download or read book The Impact of the American Revolution Abroad written by Library of Congress and published by The Minerva Group, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "God grant that not only the love of liberty, but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man, may prevail in all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say, This is my country." With this quotation from Benjamin Franklin, historian Richard Morris, Columbia University, opened the fourth Library of Congress Symposium on the American Revolution, held May 8 and 9, 1975, in the Librarys Coolidge Auditorium. For Americans, the Revolution brought independence, nationhood, a constitution clearly defining the relations of the state to the people, and reforms in social and economic equality. But what did it mean to the rest of the late 18th century world? Some answers to this question are found in the papers published in this volume. Following a comprehensive survey of the impact of the American Revolution abroad, by R. R. Palmer of Yale University, leading historians consider its effect on specific countries. France is discussed by Charles Fohlen of the University of Paris-Sorbonne; the Dutch Republic by J. W. Schulte Nordholt of the State University of Leiden; Great Britain by J. H. Plumb of Christs College, Cambridge; the Russian Empire by N. N. Bolkhoitinov of the Instittue of General History, Academy of Sciences of the USSR; the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world by Mario Rodriguez of the University of Southern California; and Ireland by Owen Dudley Edwards of the University of Edinburgh. Concluding the volume are commentaries on the American Revolution in relation to Germany, Japan, and Spain by Erich Angermann of the University of Cologne, Nagayo Homina of the University of Tokyo, and Ignacio Rubio Mañe, Archivist of Mexico.
Book Synopsis The American Revolution by : Edward Countryman
Download or read book The American Revolution written by Edward Countryman and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2003-01-08 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A newly revised version of a classic in American history When The American Revolution was first published in 1985, it was praised as the first synthesis of the Revolutionary War to use the new social history. Edward Countryman offered a balanced view of how the Revolution was made by a variety of groups-ordinary farmers as well as lawyers, women as well as men, blacks as well as whites-who transformed the character of American life and culture. In this newly revised edition, Countryman stresses the painful destruction of British identity and the construction of a new American one. He expands his geographical scope of the Revolution to include areas west of the Alleghenies, Europe, and Africa, and he draws fresh links between the politics and culture of the independence period and the creation of a new and dynamic capitalist economy. This innovative interpretation of the American Revolution creates an even richer, more comprehensive portrait of a critical period in America's history.
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Book Synopsis The Idea of America by : Gordon S. Wood
Download or read book The Idea of America written by Gordon S. Wood and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The preeminent historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history. More than almost any other nation in the world, the United States began as an idea. For this reason, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood believes that the American Revolution is the most important event in our history, bar none. Since American identity is so fluid and not based on any universally shared heritage, we have had to continually return to our nation's founding to understand who we are. In The Idea of America, Wood reflects on the birth of American nationhood and explains why the revolution remains so essential. In a series of elegant and illuminating essays, Wood explores the ideological origins of the revolution-from ancient Rome to the European Enlightenment-and the founders' attempts to forge an American democracy. As Wood reveals, while the founders hoped to create a virtuous republic of yeoman farmers and uninterested leaders, they instead gave birth to a sprawling, licentious, and materialistic popular democracy. Wood also traces the origins of American exceptionalism to this period, revealing how the revolutionary generation, despite living in a distant, sparsely populated country, believed itself to be the most enlightened people on earth. The revolution gave Americans their messianic sense of purpose-and perhaps our continued propensity to promote democracy around the world-because the founders believed their colonial rebellion had universal significance for oppressed peoples everywhere. Yet what may seem like audacity in retrospect reflected the fact that in the eighteenth century republicanism was a truly radical ideology-as radical as Marxism would be in the nineteenth-and one that indeed inspired revolutionaries the world over. Today there exists what Wood calls a terrifying gap between us and the founders, such that it requires almost an act of imagination to fully recapture their era. Because we now take our democracy for granted, it is nearly impossible for us to appreciate how deeply the founders feared their grand experiment in liberty could evolve into monarchy or dissolve into licentiousness. Gracefully written and filled with insight, The Idea of America helps us to recapture the fears and hopes of the revolutionary generation and its attempts to translate those ideals into a working democracy. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s smash Broadway musical Hamilton has sparked new interest in the Revolutionary War and the Founding Fathers. In addition to Alexander Hamilton, the production also features George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Aaron Burr, Lafayette, and many more. Look for Gordon's new book, Friends Divided.
Book Synopsis The Expanding Blaze by : Jonathan Israel
Download or read book The Expanding Blaze written by Jonathan Israel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the Americas, the Expanding Blaze is a sweeping history of how the American Revolution inspired revolutions throughout Europe and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Jonathan Israel, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment, shows how the radical ideas of American founders such as Paine, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, and Monroe set the pattern for democratic revolutions, movements, and constitutions in France, Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Greece, Canada, Haiti, Brazil, and Spanish America. The Expanding Blaze reminds us that the American Revolution was an astonishingly radical event--and that it didn't end with the transformation and independence of America. Rather, the revolution continued to reverberate in Europe and the Americas for the next three-quarters of a century. This comprehensive history of the revolution's international influence traces how American efforts to implement Radical Enlightenment ideas--including the destruction of the old regime and the promotion of democratic republicanism, self-government, and liberty--helped drive revolutions abroad, as foreign leaders explicitly followed the American example and espoused American democratic values. The first major new intellectual history of the age of democratic revolution in decades, The Expanding Blaze returns the American Revolution to its global context."--
Book Synopsis The Idea of Europe and the Origins of the American Revolution by : D. H. Robinson
Download or read book The Idea of Europe and the Origins of the American Revolution written by D. H. Robinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Idea of Europe and the Origins of the American Revolution, Dan Robinson presents a new history of politics in colonial America and the imperial crisis, tracing how ideas of Europe and Europeanness shaped British-American political culture. Reconstructing colonial debates about the European states system, European civilisation, and Britain's position within both, Robinson shows how these concerns informed colonial attitudes towards American identity and America's place inside - and, ultimately, outside - the emerging British Empire. Taking in more than two centuries of Atlantic history, he explores the way in which colonists inherited and adapted Anglo-British traditions of thinking about international politics, how they navigated imperial politics during the European wars of 1740-1763, and how the burgeoning patriot movement negotiated the dual crisis of Europe and Empire in the between 1763 and 1775. In the process, Robinson sheds new light on the development of public politics in colonial America, the Anglicisation/Americanisation debate, the political economy of empire, early American art and poetry, eighteenth-century geopolitical thinking, and the relationship between international affairs, nationalism, and revolution. What emerges from this story is an American Revolution that seems both decidedly arcane and strikingly relevant to the political challenges of the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis The Age of the Democratic Revolution by : R. R. Palmer
Download or read book The Age of the Democratic Revolution written by R. R. Palmer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 877 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Western world, the period from 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being. Here for the first time in one volume is R. R. Palmer's magisterial account of this incendiary age. Palmer argues that the American, French, and Polish revolutions—and the movements for political change in Britain, Ireland, Holland, and elsewhere—were manifestations of similar political ideas, needs, and conflicts. Palmer traces the clash between an older form of society, marked by legalized social rank and hereditary or self-perpetuating elites, and a new form of society that placed a greater value on social mobility and legal equality. Featuring a new foreword by David Armitage, this Princeton Classics edition of The Age of the Democratic Revolution introduces a new generation of readers to this enduring work of political history.
Book Synopsis History of the American Revolution by : Samuel Farmer Wilson
Download or read book History of the American Revolution written by Samuel Farmer Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the American Revolution: With a Preliminary View of the Character and Principles of the Colonists, and Their Controversies With Great Britain But on glancing into his volume, we find that our apprehensions were groundless. We have no time for critical examination into all those matters so essential to historical accuracy; but so far as we have looked at the present work, we think it decidedly successful. The author's power of analysis and arrangement, seem to be good, and his style vigorous and clear. It is a good class-book for schools. From the National Gazette. A neat duodecimo volume has just appeared in Baltimore, with the title "History of the American Revolution, with a preliminary view of the character and principles of the Colonists, and their Controversies with Great Britian." The author of it is S. F. Wilson, Esq. editor of the Baltimore American. The editorial articles of this gentleman are generally skilful epitomes; and hence we should augur favorably of his abstract of our Revolutionary annals. We have read parts of several chapters of the work, and from them we infer with the author that "it might be advantageously used in the instruction of youth." From the Pennsylvania Inquirer. "History of the American Revolution." The Baltimore booksellers have just published in a neat and substantial volume, a "History of the American Revolution," with a preliminary view of the character and principles of the Colonists, and their Controversies with Great Britain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Empire and Independence by : Richard Warner Van Alstyne
Download or read book Empire and Independence written by Richard Warner Van Alstyne and published by New York : Wiley. This book was released on 1965 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rethinking the Atlantic World by : Manuela Albertone
Download or read book Rethinking the Atlantic World written by Manuela Albertone and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection of essays provides a re-evaluation of the term 'Atlantic', by placing at the core of the debate on republicanism in the early modern age the link between continental Europe and America, rather than assuming British political culture as having been widely representative of Europe as a whole.
Book Synopsis The Origin and Principles of the American Revolution Compared with the Origin and Principles of the French Revolution by : Friedrich von Gentz
Download or read book The Origin and Principles of the American Revolution Compared with the Origin and Principles of the French Revolution written by Friedrich von Gentz and published by Delmar, N.Y. : Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints. This book was released on 1977 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis America and the Image of Europe by : Daniel Joseph Boorstin
Download or read book America and the Image of Europe written by Daniel Joseph Boorstin and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Age of the Democratic Revolution by : Robert Roswell Palmer
Download or read book The Age of the Democratic Revolution written by Robert Roswell Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Birth of American Political Thought, 1763-87 by : Dick Howard
Download or read book The Birth of American Political Thought, 1763-87 written by Dick Howard and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1990-07-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was 'revolutionary' in the process by which the thirteen North American colonies affirmed their independence? What is it about that 'revolution' that still colours the way in which Americans engage in politics? Dick Howard, author of The Marxian Legacy, Defining the Political and The Politics of Critique uses a similar framework to look at America. What is the political, how does a critique of the present become a politics for the future, and especially, what becomes of radical politics once it abandons the economistic promises of Marxism? This book originally published in French, as part of the political debate leading up to the bi-centenary of the French Revolution, was awarded the 'Prix Littraire de l'Association France-tats-Unis.' The present English edition includes a new Introduction and an Afterword relating the author’s argument to the two crucial novelties of American politics: the invention of a party system, and the institution of judicial review.
Book Synopsis American History in American Thought: Christopher Columbus to Henry Adams by : Bert James Loewenberg
Download or read book American History in American Thought: Christopher Columbus to Henry Adams written by Bert James Loewenberg and published by New York : Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1972 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First 15 chapters previously published under title: Historical writing in American culture. Bibliography: p. 659-695.
