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Citizens of a Common Intellectual Homeland: The Transatlantic Origins of American Democracy and Nationhood (Jeffersonian America)
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Hardcover. Series: Jeffersonian America. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 158 x 26. Weight in Grams: 520.
Citizens of a Common Intellectual Homeland explores the simultaneous emergence of modern concepts of democracy and the nation on both sides of the Atlantic during the age of revolutions.To illustrate the transatlantic emergence of these ideas, Armin Mattes considers the works of pairs of prominent intellectual contemporaries?one in America and the other in Europe?each writing on a common topic. This novels approach of pairing prominent thinkers from both continents highlights the significant impact that the French Revolution had on the development of thought in the period, demonstrating that America was intimately tied to revolutionary events and processes in the larger ... Read more
Citizens of a Common Intellectual Homeland explores the simultaneous emergence of modern concepts of democracy and the nation on both sides of the Atlantic during the age of revolutions.To illustrate the transatlantic emergence of these ideas, Armin Mattes considers the works of pairs of prominent intellectual contemporaries?one in America and the other in Europe?each writing on a common topic. This novels approach of pairing prominent thinkers from both continents highlights the significant impact that the French Revolution had on the development of thought in the period, demonstrating that America was intimately tied to revolutionary events and processes in the larger ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
Jeffersonian America
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813938042
SKU
V9780813938042
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About Unknown
Armin Mattes is Research Fellow with the Kinder Forum on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri, USA.
Reviews for Citizens of a Common Intellectual Homeland: The Transatlantic Origins of American Democracy and Nationhood (Jeffersonian America)
“A fantastically sophisticated, yet crystal clear work of intellectual history."" —Seth Cotlar, Willamette University