The Age of the Democratic Revolution. A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800

178 Chapter IX The Sense of a New Era The first and greatest effect of the American Revolution in Europe was to make Europeans b ...

Europe and the American Revolution 179 The influence of the American Revolution in Europe has been thoroughly stud- ied only for ...

180 Chapter IX prehensive government, for although Spain joined in the American War of Inde- pendence, it naturally feared the s ...

Europe and the American Revolution 181 the importance of government and political institutions, and believed that there was some ...

182 Chapter IX WRITINGS ON AMERICA APPEARING IN THREE OR MORE LANGUAGES MAINLY BETWEEN 1760 AND 1790 Language or Nationality of ...

Europe and the American Revolution 183 German Dutch Italian Spanish 1783 1787 1784 1784 1786 1785 1790 1789 1794 1794 1792 1775 ...

184 Chapter IX newspapers, and hired a room or met in a tavern to read and discuss them. It is for France that most is known abo ...

Europe and the American Revolution 185 Of the Poles who fought in America, Pulaski was killed there, but Kosciusko survived to l ...

186 Chapter IX forth in Hanover, where the dynastic connection with England had brought about many intellectual contacts. The Un ...

Europe and the American Revolution 187 its representative at Versailles, for Franklin was the only American whose name was known ...

188 Chapter IX intentioned philosophers who came to him with plans for governing the United States. He introduced John Adams, Je ...

Europe and the American Revolution 189 vote recognition of the United States, after which half a dozen Amsterdam bank- ers produ ...

190 Chapter IX A few more words are due to Philip Mazzei, already mentioned. An Italian who settled in Virginia in 1773, he beca ...

Europe and the American Revolution 191 Sometimes it is à la David, teaching the theme of civic self- sacrifice, as in Da- vid’s ...

192 Chapter IX sense the psychological discomfort felt by people outside the aristocratic world, the yearning to live in a bette ...

Europe and the American Revolution 193 Dein Beispiel ruft laut den Nationen: “Frei ist, wer’s sein will, und wert zu sein ist!”. ...

194 Chapter IX enormous turning point in the entire history of the human race. This was that sense of a new era already mentione ...

Europe and the American Revolution 195 uplifting of the human race.”^29 The Italian, Castiglioni, who was not actually much impr ...

196 Chapter IX was the Marquis de Chastellux, who had been a major- general in Rochambeau’s army, and who, having written a litt ...

Europe and the American Revolution 197 oneself.”^35 The incredible triviality of the last two words was unfortunately not limite ...