Rethinking the Atlantic World [electronic resource] : Europe and America in the Age of Democratic Revolutions /
Albertone, Manuela.author.
De Francesco, Antonino.author.
Francesco, A. De.editor.
This unique collection of essays provides a re-evaluation of the term 'Atlantic', by placing at the core of the debate on republicanism in the early modern age the link between continental Europe and America, rather than assuming British political culture as having been widely representative of Europe as a whole.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Political ideas and economic models in eighteenth-century Europe and America. The one and the many : the two revolutions question and the 'consumer-commercial' Atlantic, 1789 to the present / Allan Potofsky - - Democracy and equality in the radical Enlightenment : revolutionary ideology before 1789 / Jonathan Israel - - Between republicanism and the Enlightenment : Turgot and Adams / Maria Luisa Pesante - - Nicolas Bergasse and Alexander Hamilton : the role of the judiciary in the separation of powers and two conceptions of constitutional order / Pasquale Pasquino - - Neutrality and trade in the Dutch republic (1775-1783) : preludes to a piecemeal revolution / Koen Stapelbroek - - Free trade and democratic revolutions in eighteenth-century Europe and America. Thomas Jefferson and French economic thought : a mutual exchange of ideas / Muanuela Albertone - - The question of slavery in the physiocratic texts : a rereading of an old debate / Marcel Dorigny - - 'A new kind of federalism' : Benjamin Constant and modern Europe / Biancamaria Fontana - - Industry, government and Europe : from the mercantilists to Saint-Simon / Gino Longhitano - - The American and the French revolutions : from two continents a new political world. France and the United States at the end of the eighteenth century / James Roger Sharp - - The French and North American revolutions in comparative perspective / Richard Whatmore ; Federalist obsession and Jacobin conspiracy : France and the United States in a time of revolution, 1789-1794 / Antonino de Francesco - - In search of the Atlantic republic : 1660-1776-1799 in the mirror / Pierre Serna - - The republican imagination and race : the case of the Haitian revolution / Bernard Gainot.
This unique collection of essays provides a re-evaluation of the term 'Atlantic', by placing at the core of the debate on republicanism in the early modern age the link between continental Europe and America, rather than assuming British political culture as having been widely representative of Europe as a whole.
Europe-History.
History, Modern.
America-History.
World politics.
World history.
Europe-History-1492-.
European History.
Modern History.
History of the Americas.
Political History.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
History of Early Modern Europe.