LEADER 04048nam 22006492 450 001 9910788934803321 005 20151005020624.0 010 $a1-107-46161-8 010 $a1-139-89308-4 010 $a1-107-45950-8 010 $a1-107-47231-8 010 $a1-139-62871-2 010 $a1-107-46521-4 010 $a1-107-46871-X 035 $a(CKB)3710000000057228 035 $a(EBL)1543573 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001047323 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12437585 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001047323 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11157793 035 $a(PQKB)10984763 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139628716 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1543573 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1543573 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10795345 035 $a(OCoLC)865330741 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000057228 100 $a20121129d2013|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAmericomania and the French Revolution debate in Britain, 1789--1802 /$fWil Verhoeven, University of Groningen$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 387 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-56728-9 311 $a1-107-04019-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aUtopianism in practice : the American front of the French Revolution in Britain, 1789 -- 1802 -- "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. 330 $aThis book explores the evolution of British identity and participatory politics in the 1790s. Wil Verhoeven argues that in the course of the French Revolution debate in Britain, the idea of 'America' came to represent for the British people the choice between two diametrically opposed models of social justice and political participation. Yet the American Revolution controversy in the 1790s was by no means an isolated phenomenon. The controversy began with the American crisis debate of the 1760s and 1770s, which overlapped with a wider Enlightenment debate about transatlantic utopianism. All of these debates were based in the material world on the availability of vast quantities of cheap American land. Verhoeven investigates the relation that existed throughout the eighteenth century between American soil and the discourse of transatlantic utopianism: between America as a physical, geographical space, and 'America' as a utopian/dystopian idea-image. 517 3 $aAmericomania & the French Revolution Debate in Britain, 1789-1802 606 $aUtopias$zUnited States 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$y1789-1820 607 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1789-1820 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783$xInfluence 607 $aFrance$xHistory$yRevolution, 1789-1799$xInfluence 615 0$aUtopias 676 $a941.07/3 700 $aVerhoeven$b W. M.$0480687 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788934803321 996 $aAmericomania and the French Revolution debate in Britain, 1789-1802$9256727 997 $aUNINA