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Lessons from America:

Liberal French Nobles in Exile, 17931798
  • ISBN-13: 9780271036380
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Doina Pasca Harsanyi
  • Price: AUD $86.99
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  • Local release date: 13/10/2010
  • Format: Paperback 216 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]
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Examines the American experience of a group of French liberal aristocrats who had participated in the early years of the French Revolution and subsequently lived as political refugees in Philadelphia from 1793 to 1798.


Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Aristocrats and Liberal Nobles on the Eve of the Revolution

2. Moreau’s Circle of Friends

3. What to Expect When Landing in America

4. The American Home Away from Home

5. Politics, Business, and the Future of France

6. American Influences Under the Directory

Conclusion

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index


“Elegantly written and amply documented in thirty pages of footnotes. . . [Lessons from America] is a helpful contribution to the history of liberal ideas.”

—William Doyle, Journal of Modern History

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