British Visions of America, 1775-1820
Subtitle: Republican Realities
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781851966509
Subjects: Public opinion, great britain; Political culture; Political science, great britain; United states, foreign public opinion
Description: "In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Britain's perception of America varied between a set of colonies, a utopia, a market and an experiment. Macleod examines changing British conceptions of America across the political spectrum during a period of political, cultural and intellectual upheaval. These shifting perceptions are in evidence in the writings of political commentators including Samuel Johnson, Thomas Paine, John Gifford, William Cobbett and Samuel Taylor Coleridge."--Publisher's website.