Europe's American Revolution

ISBN-13: 9781403989970 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 201 str.

Professor Simon P. Newman

Opis

Europe's American Revolution explores how the American Revolution has been constructed, defined and understood by Europeans from the 1770s up until the present day. Historians in the United States have often assumed that the ideals of the American Revolution had an enduring significance outside of their own country, arguing that the contagion of liberty spread to France and beyond. According to this view, the American republic and the values upon which it was founded have served as the world's first and foremost emblem of liberty and democratic government. The essays in this volume challenge this by illustrating the importance of considering the American Revolution in a broader and more comparative international context. From Scotland to Spain, and from Hungary to France, the American Revolution has meant different things and been used, or at times ignored, for different reasons. The actions and the achievements of the American Patriots continue to resonate in early twenty-first-century Europe; this volume is the first in-depth comparative study of this process.

Recenzje

'This is a rich volume, teeming with rejuvenated views of the American Revolution and new insights into the concept of 'American exceptionalism' that, by and large, seems to have lost most of its past luster.' - Gérard Hugues, H-Diplo

Spis treści

Introduction; S.P.Newman The American Revolution, Glasgow, and the Makings of the Second City of the Empire; B.A.Jones The American Revolution and the Spanish Monarchy; A.McFarlane The American Revolution in France: Under the Shadow of the French Revolution; M.J.Rossignol British Historians and the Changing Significance of the American Revolution; S.P.Newman The Relevance of the American Revolution in Hungarian History from an East-Central-European Perspective; C.Lévai We, the Volk: Modern and Radical Constitutionalism from the American Revolution to the German Direct-Democracy Debate; T.Clark John Taylor of Caroline's Construction Construed, and Constitutions Vindicated and New Views of the Constitution of the United States , with Some Reflections on European Union; J.E.Mullin Revisioning the American Revolution in the Era of the Hollywood 'Blockbuster': Perspectives from Europe and the United States; A.Pepper Bibliography

O autorze

THOMAS CLARK Assistant Professor of American History, the University of Kassel, Germany BRADLEY A. JONES Lecturer in History, University of Glasgow, UI CSABA LÉVAI Associate Professor of History, University of Debrecen, Hungary ANTHONY MCFARLANE Professor of History, University of Warwick, UK JOSEPH EUGENE MULLIN Associate Professor of American Literature and American Society and Culture, University of the Minho, Portugal SIMON P. NEWMAN Sir Denis Brogan Professor of American Studies, University of Glasgow, UK ANDREW PEPPER Lecturer in English and American Literature, Queen's University Belfast, UK MARIE-JEANNE ROSSIGNOL Professor of American Civilization, University of Paris 7, Denis-Diderot, France