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America through European eyes : British and French reflections on the new world from the eighteenth century to the present
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America through European eyes : British and French reflections on the new world from the eighteenth century to the present

Author: Aurelian Crăiuțu; Jeffrey C Isaac
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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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America through European eyes.
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009
(OCoLC)653331171
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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"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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