Europe's American Revolution

Historians in the United States have argued that the ideals of the American Revolution have had an enduring significance outside their own country. The essays in this volume explore how the American Revolution has been constructed, defined and understood by Europeans from the 1770s, illustrating what it has meant in different countries.

'This is a rich volume, teeming with rejuvenated views of the American Revolution and new insights into the concept of 'American exceptionalism' that, by and large, seems to have lost most of its past luster.' - Gérard Hugues, H-Diplo

Autorentext
THOMAS CLARK Assistant Professor of American History, the University of Kassel, Germany BRADLEY A. JONES Lecturer in History, University of Glasgow, UI CSABA LÉVAI Associate Professor of History, University of Debrecen, Hungary ANTHONY MCFARLANE Professor of History, University of Warwick, UK JOSEPH EUGENE MULLIN Associate Professor of American Literature and American Society and Culture, University of the Minho, Portugal SIMON P. NEWMAN Sir Denis Brogan Professor of American Studies, University of Glasgow, UK ANDREW PEPPER Lecturer in English and American Literature, Queen's University Belfast, UK MARIE-JEANNE ROSSIGNOL Professor of American Civilization, University of Paris 7, Denis-Diderot, France

Inhalt
Introduction; S.P.Newman The American Revolution, Glasgow, and the Makings of the Second City of the Empire; B.A.Jones The American Revolution and the Spanish Monarchy; A.McFarlane The American Revolution in France: Under the Shadow of the French Revolution; M.J.Rossignol British Historians and the Changing Significance of the American Revolution; S.P.Newman The Relevance of the American Revolution in Hungarian History from an East-Central-European Perspective; C.Lévai We, the Volk: Modern and Radical Constitutionalism from the American Revolution to the German Direct-Democracy Debate; T.Clark John Taylor of Caroline's Construction Construed, and Constitutions Vindicated and New Views of the Constitution of the United States , with Some Reflections on European Union; J.E.Mullin Revisioning the American Revolution in the Era of the Hollywood 'Blockbuster': Perspectives from Europe and the United States; A.Pepper Bibliography