Format:
1 online resource (viii, 303 pages)
ISBN:
9780813949901
Series Statement:
The revolutionary age
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Andrew J. O'Shaughnessy, John A. Ragosta, and Marie-Jeanne Rossignol -- Imagining an American, and a French, Revolutionary -- American Nationality: A French Invention? / Julia Osman -- Diplomacy: Friends, Allies, and Free Trade -- Ideology and Interest: Free Trade, the League of Armed Neutrality, and the American Revolution / Paul A. Gilje -- "Sir, I have not yet begun to fight!": John Paul Jones's Friends in the Dutch Republic, 1779-1780 / Victor Enthoven -- War at Sea: The Battle of the Chesapeake -- Season, Winds, and the Sea: The Improbable Route of de Grasse to the Chesapeake / Olivier Chaline -- The Battle of the Chesapeake from the Quarterdeck: From an Admirals' Quarrel to Scholars' Consensus / Jean-Marie Kowalski -- Conflicted Allies: Spain and Portugal in the American War for Independence -- Bernardo de Gálvez: Friend of the American Revolution, Friend of Empire / Kathleen DuVal and Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia -- Old Partners and Intersecting Interests: Trade and Diplomacy between Portugal and the United States during the Era of George Washington (c. 1781-1805) / Timothy Walker -- Lafayette and French Nobles: Constitutional Reform in a Revolutionary Voice -- Lafayette and the "More Perfect Union": Strengthening America in the Confederation Era, 1783-1789 / Robert Rhodes Crout -- Lafayette, the Lameths, and "Republican Monarchy," 1789-1791 / Munro Price -- Studying Atlantic History with Jacques Godechot and Robert R. Palmer -- In Search of Global Democracy: Revisiting the Historical Work of Jacques Godechot and Robert R. Palmer, Founders of Atlantic History / Marie-Jeanne Rossignol -- Contributors -- Index.
Content:
"American independence would not have been achieved without diplomatic, financial, and military support from Europe. And without recognition from powerful European nations, the young country would never have assumed an independent status "amongst the powers of the earth." This collection of essays not only offers new glimpses into the ways in which various European powers and actors enabled American patriots to fight and win the war, it also highlights the American Revolution's short- and long-term impact on the Atlantic world"--
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813949888
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe European friends of the American Revolution Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2023 ISBN 9780813949888
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0813949882
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813949895
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0813949890
Language:
English
Keywords:
Europa
;
USA
;
Amerikanische Revolution
;
Verbündeter
;
Geschichte
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Aufsatzsammlung
