In this path-breaking new history of early America, the imperial crisis, and the American Revolution, D. H. Robinson traces the formative impact of ideas about Europe and Europeanness on British-American politics and identity, touching on everything from international relations and nationalism, to news media and poetry.
In this path-breaking new history of early America, the imperial crisis, and the American Revolution, D. H. Robinson traces the formative impact of ideas about Europe and Europeanness on British-American politics and identity, touching on everything from international relations and nationalism, to news media and poetry.
Born in Northumberland, D. H. Robinson earned his bachelor's and doctoral degrees at Peterhouse, Cambridge, before becoming a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He served as Senior Policy Advisor at the Cabinet Office in Theresa May's government. In both academia and public policy, his work has explored unionism, separatism, and the idea of Europe in the English-speaking world.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction * I: 'The Venerable Head': The Reflections of Ezra Stiles * Prologue: The Neighbour's House, 1533 - 1775 * II: 'The Rose of Sharon': The English and the Peace of Christendom * III: 'Peace and Tranquillity': The System of Europe in British Grand Strategy * IV: 'The Temper of the People': Public Politics in British America * Part One: The Liberties of Europe, 1740 - 1763 * V: 'Giving Peace to Europe': Colonial Whigs and the Balance of Power * VI: 'The Patron of Mankind': Geopolitics and Colonial Nationalism * VII: 'In a National Light': War and the Ethics of Imperial Politics * Part Two: A British Empire, 1763 - 1776 * VIII: Magna Britannia': European Crisis, British Isolation, and Colonial Longing * IX: 'The Asylum of Liberty': Universal Monarchy and American Nationhood * X: 'Arbitress of the Universe': Empires, Futures, and Revolutionary Geopolitics * Conclusion * XI: Events Abroad': America between Two Worlds * Bibliography
* Introduction * I: 'The Venerable Head': The Reflections of Ezra Stiles * Prologue: The Neighbour's House, 1533 - 1775 * II: 'The Rose of Sharon': The English and the Peace of Christendom * III: 'Peace and Tranquillity': The System of Europe in British Grand Strategy * IV: 'The Temper of the People': Public Politics in British America * Part One: The Liberties of Europe, 1740 - 1763 * V: 'Giving Peace to Europe': Colonial Whigs and the Balance of Power * VI: 'The Patron of Mankind': Geopolitics and Colonial Nationalism * VII: 'In a National Light': War and the Ethics of Imperial Politics * Part Two: A British Empire, 1763 - 1776 * VIII: Magna Britannia': European Crisis, British Isolation, and Colonial Longing * IX: 'The Asylum of Liberty': Universal Monarchy and American Nationhood * X: 'Arbitress of the Universe': Empires, Futures, and Revolutionary Geopolitics * Conclusion * XI: Events Abroad': America between Two Worlds * Bibliography
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