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Old world, new world : America and Europe in the age of Jefferson / edited by Leonard J. Sadosky [and others].
- Published
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.
- Physical Description
- xii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Sadosky, Leonard J.
- Series
- Contents
- Introduction / Peter S. Onuf -- Environmental hazards, eighteenth-century style / Gordon S. Wood -- Decadents abroad : reconstructing the typical colonial American in London in the late colonial period / Julie Flavell -- "Citizens of the world" : men, women, and country in the Age of Revolution / Sarah M.S. Pearsall -- Reimagining the British empire and America in an Age of Revolution : the case of William Eden / Leonard J. Sadosky -- John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the Dutch patriots / Peter Nicolaisen-- John Adams in Europe : a provincial cosmopolitan confronts the metropolitan world, 1778-1788 / Richard A. Ryerson -- "Behold me at length on the vaunted scene of Europe" : Jefferson and the creation of an American image abroad / Gaye Wilson -- Negotiating gifts : Jefferson's diplomatic presents / Martha Elena Rojas -- Better tools for a new and better world : Jefferson perfects the plow / Lucia Stanton -- The end of a beautiful friendship : Americans in Paris and public diplomacy during the war scare of 1798-1799 / Philipp Ziesche -- Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte : a woman between two worlds / Charlene Boyer Lewis.
- Subject(s)
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826—Congresses
- Adams, John, 1735-1826—Congresses
- Bonaparte, Elizabeth Patterson, 1785-1879—Congresses
- Americans—Europe—History—18th century—Congresses
- United States—Relations—Europe—Congresses
- Europe—Relations—United States—Congresses
- United States—Civilization—1783-1865—Congresses
- Europe—Civilization—18th century—Congresses
- ISBN
- 9780813928470 (cloth : alk. paper)
0813928478 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813928487 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813928486 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813928524 (e-book)
0813928524 (e-book) - Note
- "This volume contains a selection of contributions from a conference entitled "The Old World and the New: Exchanges Between America and Europe in the Age of Jefferson," held at the Salzburg Seminar in Salzburg, Austria, on October 12-16, 2005"--Pref.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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