Revolutionary Histories
Subtitle: Transatlantic Cultural Nationalism 1775-1815 (Romanticism in Perspective)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: March 20, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780333794159
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; American history: c 1800 to c 1900; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary studies: 19th century; Modern - 19th Century; History; American literature; Revolutionary period, 1775-178; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Modern - 18th Century; History: World; Europe; USA; History and criticism; American - General; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Popular Culture - General; Revolutionary period, 1775-1783; United States; 18th century; 19th century; English literature
First sentence: The American and French Revolutions at the end of the eighteenth century stimulated the development of an optimistic, liberal, trans-atlantic political culture that united the advocates of both revolutions.