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001 2013013367
003 DLC
005 20151028080448.0
008 130422s2013 enkab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013013367
020 $a9781107040199 (pbk.)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
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050 00 $aDA520$b.V47 2013
082 00 $a941.07/3$223
100 1 $aVerhoeven, W. M.
245 10 $aAmericomania and the French Revolution debate in Britain, 1789--1802 /$cWil Verhoeven, University of Groningen.
264 1 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2013.
300 $axii, 387 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 353-370) and index.
505 0 $aUtopianism in practice : the American front of the French Revolution in Britain, 1789--1802 -- "The war of systems": print culture and the institutionalization of the political divide in the 1790s -- "Cultivators of the earth": the American crisis and the emergence of the freehold farmer, 1763--1783 -- "Rabies agri": or, wilderness for sale -- "The calculated rise of the American empire": the radicalization of American utopianism -- "The mania of emigration": new philosophers in the wilderness -- "The precious pearl of liberty": from Newgate Prison to Ohiopiomingo -- "Come to these Arcadians regions where there is room for millions": politics for the people -- "Look before you leap": the demonization of Jacobin America -- "Parrying the enemy with their own weapons": dystopianism and the popular discourse of fear -- Postscript : "mania reformatio" the demise of transatlantic utopianism.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$y1789-1820.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1789-1820.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783$xInfluence.
651 0 $aFrance$xHistory$yRevolution, 1789-1799$xInfluence.
650 0 $aUtopias$zUnited States.