In The Idea of Europe and the Origins of the American Revolution,
Dan Robinson presents a new history of politics in colonial America
and the imperial crisis, tracing how ideas of Europe and
Europeanness shaped British-American political culture.
Reconstructing colonial debates about the European states system,
European civilisation, and Britain's position within both, Robinson
shows how these concerns informed colonial attitudes towards
American identity and America's place inside - and, ultimately,
outside - the emerging British Empire. Taking in more than two
centuries of Atlantic history, he explores the way in which
colonists inherited and adapted Anglo-British traditions of
thinking about international politics, how they navigated imperial
politics during the European wars of 1740-1763, and how the
burgeoning patriot movement negotiated the dual crisis of Europe
and Empire in the between 1763 and 1775. In the process, Robinson
sheds new light on the development of public politics in colonial
America, the Anglicisation/Americanisation debate, the political
economy of empire, early American art and poetry,
eighteenth-century geopolitical thinking, and the relationship
between international affairs, nationalism, and revolution. What
emerges from this story is an American Revolution that seems both
decidedly arcane and strikingly relevant to the political
challenges of the twenty-first century.
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