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Condorcet:

Writings on the United States

ISBN-13: 9780271053820
Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Edited by Guillaume Ansart
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Local release date: 01/05/2012
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Categories: Literature: history & criticism [DS]

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An English translation of the writings of French constitutional theorist Nicolas de Condorcet (1743-94) on the United States. Subjects include the American Revolution, federal Constitution, and the emerging political culture in the United States.

Contents

Translator’s Note and Acknowledgments

Introduction: Condorcet and America

Influence of the American Revolution on Europe (1786)

Introduction

Chapter One: Influence of the American Revolution on the Opinions and Legislation of Europe

Chapter Two: On the Benefits of the American Revolution with Respect to the Preservation of Peace in Europe

Chapter Three: Benefits of the American Revolution with Respect to the Perfectibility of the Human Race

Chapter Four: On the Good That the American Revolution Can Do, Through Trade, to Europe and to France in Particular

Conclusion

Supplement to Filippo Mazzei’s Researches on the United States (1788)

Ideas on Despotism: For the Benefit of Those Who Pronounce This Word Without Understanding It (1789)

Eulogy of Franklin: Read at the Public Session of the Academy of Sciences, November 13, 1790 (1790)

Appendix: Notes to the French Translation of John Stevens’s Observations on Government (1789)

Chronology

Notes

Selected Bibliography in English

Index of Proper Names

“Scholars and aficianados of the early national period of U.S. history who have been fascinated by the commentaries of Crèvecoeur’s Letters from an American Farmer . . . and de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America should take note of Guillame Ansart’s addition to this significant genre of interpretations of the American Revolution and the subsequent fledgling republic. Condorcet: Writings on the United States adds another significant dimension to the discussion, despite the fact that this ‘last’ of the philosophes never visited the New World. . . . We should all thank Guillaume Ansart for compiling this anthology.”

—Thomas C. Sosnowski, H-France Review

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