Liberty and Liberticide
The Role of America in Nineteenth-Century British Radicalism- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2013
Summary
America was important to many British radicals. It was a model, an exemplar, a source of inspiration, and American events were believed to have a bearing on reform debates in Britain. Many scholars focus on the positive impressions of the United States that prominent British radicals entertained, developed, and propagated, but it is necessary also to explore the reasons why some radicals condemned rather than praised America, and to explain how America was conceptualized and used by them, and to what purpose.
Liberty and Liberticide focuses on the influence America exerted over the ideas and activities of nineteenth-century British radicals. While some looked on America as the model of liberty, others associated it with the destruction of liberty. Turner shows how radicals’ views about the United States and the course of Anglo-American relations shaped their domestic reform agenda and their assumptions about British political values and Britain’s place in the world.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2013
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7391-7817-1
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7391-7818-8
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 279
- Product type
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Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Introduction No access Pages 1 - 28
- 1 The Politics and Rhetoric of Admiration No access Pages 29 - 54
- 2 Eulogies with Reservations No access Pages 55 - 90
- 3 The Growth of Anti-Americanism No access Pages 91 - 126
- 4 American Crisis: Part One No access Pages 127 - 154
- 5 American Crisis: Part Two No access Pages 155 - 186
- 6 After the Civil War No access Pages 187 - 220
- 7 Late Nineteenth-Century Political and Economic Contexts No access Pages 221 - 258
- Conclusion No access Pages 259 - 266
- Index No access Pages 267 - 278
- About the Author No access Pages 279 - 279





