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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821548603321

Autore

Turner Michael J

Titolo

Liberty and liberticide : the role of America in nineteenth-century British radicalism / / Michael J. Turner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-7391-7818-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Disciplina

327.7304109/034

Soggetti

Radicalism - Great Britain - History

Great Britain Relations United States History

United States Relations Great Britain History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The politics and rhetoric of admiration -- Eulogies with reservations -- The growth of anti-Americanism: tariffs, slavery, and U.S. foreign policy -- American crisis, part one -- American crisis, part two -- After the Civil War -- Late nineteenth-century political and economic contexts.

Sommario/riassunto

Liberty and Liberticide focuses on the influence America exerted over the ideas and activities of nineteenth-century British radicals. While some looked on America as the model of liberty, others associated it with the destruction of liberty. Turner shows how British radicals' views about the United States and the course of Anglo-American relations shaped their domestic reform agenda and their assumptions about British political values and Britain's place in the world.