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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: America through European eyes. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009 (OCoLC)653331171 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Aurelian Crăiuțu; Jeffrey C Isaac |
| ISBN: | 9780271033907 0271033908 |
| OCLC Number: | 237325203 |
| Description: | vi, 288 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Europeans in search of America / Aurelian Craiutu and Jeffrey C. Isaac -- Part One: America's many faces. The idea of America in the history of European political thought: 1492 to 9/11 / Alan Levine -- Part Two: America and the Enlightenment. Notes on Bishop Berkeley's New World / Costica Bradatan -- From Voltaire to Raynal and Diderot's Histoire des deux Indes: The French philosophes and Colonial America / Guillaume Ansart -- On the political efficacy of idealism: Tocqueville, Schoelcher, and the abolition of slavery / Nick Nesbitt -- Part Three: French views of America. A precursor of Tocqueville: Victor Jacquemont's reflections on America / Aurelian Craiutu -- Tyranny and tragedy in Beaumont's Marie / Christine Dunn Henderson -- French visions of America: from Tocqueville to the Civil War / Jeremy Jennings -- Part Four: British views of America. From aristocratic politesse to democratic civility, or, What Mrs. Frances Trollope didn't see in America / Richard Boyd -- Tyranny of the majority or fatalism of the multitude? Bryce on democracy in America / Russell L. Hanson -- What G.K. Chesterton saw in America: the cosmopolitan threat from a patriotic nation / Patrick J. Deneen -- Conclusion: "America" between past and future / Jeffrey C. Isaac. |
| Other Titles: | British and French reflections on the new world from the eighteenth century to the present |
| Responsibility: | edited by Aurelian Craiutu & Jeffrey C. Isaac. |
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Abstract:
"A collection of essays that discuss representative eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French and English views of American democracy and society, and offer a critical assessment of various narrative constructions of American life, society, and culture"--Provided by publisher.
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