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Titolo: | Old world, new world [[electronic resource] ] : America and Europe in the age of Jefferson / / edited by Leonard J. Sadosky ... [et al.] |
Pubblicazione: | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
Disciplina: | 303.48/2730409033 |
Soggetto topico: | Americans - Europe - History - 18th century |
Soggetto geografico: | United States Relations Europe Congresses |
Europe Relations United States Congresses | |
United States Civilization 1783-1865 Congresses | |
Europe Civilization 18th century Congresses | |
Altri autori: | SadoskyLeonard J |
Note generali: | "This volume contains a selection of contributions from a conference entitled "The Old World and the New: Exchanges Between America and Europe in the Age of Jefferson," held at the Salzburg Seminar in Salzburg, Austria, on October 12-16, 2005"--Pref. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Introduction / Peter S. Onuf -- Environmental hazards, eighteenth-century style / Gordon S. Wood -- Decadents abroad : reconstructing the typical colonial American in London in the late colonial period / Julie Flavell -- "Citizens of the world" : men, women, and country in the Age of Revolution / Sarah M.S. Pearsall -- Reimagining the British empire and America in an Age of Revolution : the case of William Eden / Leonard J. Sadosky -- John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the Dutch patriots / Peter Nicolaisen-- John Adams in Europe : a provincial cosmopolitan confronts the metropolitan world, 1778-1788 / Richard A. Ryerson -- "Behold me at length on the vaunted scene of Europe" : Jefferson and the creation of an American image abroad / Gaye Wilson -- Negotiating gifts : Jefferson's diplomatic presents / Martha Elena Rojas -- Better tools for a new and better world : Jefferson perfects the plow / Lucia Stanton -- The end of a beautiful friendship : Americans in Paris and public diplomacy during the war scare of 1798-1799 / Philipp Ziesche -- Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte : a woman between two worlds / Charlene Boyer Lewis. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Old world, new world |
ISBN: | 0-8139-2852-4 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910789743703321 |
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