Old World, New World: America and Europe in the Age of Jefferson

by Leonard J. Sadosky, Peter Nicolaisen, Peter S. Onuf, Andrew J. O'Shaughnessy PhD

Overview

Old World, New World: America and Europe in the Age of Jefferson grew out of workshops in Salzburg and Charlottesville sponsored by Monticello’s International Center for Jefferson Studies, and revisits a question of long-standing interest to American historians: the nature of the relationship between America and Europe during the Age of Revolution. Study of the American-European relationship in recent years has been moved forward by the notion of Atlantic history and the study of the Atlantic world. The present volume makes a fresh contribution by refocusing attention on the question of the interdependence of Europe and America.

Old World, New World addresses topics that are timely, given contemporary public events, but that are also of interest to early modern and modern historians. By turning attention from the Atlantic World in general to the relationship between America and Europe, as well as using Thomas Jefferson as a lens to examine this relationship, this book carves out its own niche in the history of the Atlantic world in the age of revolution.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813928470
Publisher:	University of Virginia Press
Publication date:	02/09/2010
Series:	Jeffersonian America
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Leonard J. Sadosky is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Iowa State University. Peter Nicolaisen is Professor of English (retired) at the University of Flensburg, Germany. Peter S. Onuf is Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor in the Department of History at the University of Virginia. Andrew J. O'Shaughnessy is Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation.

What People are Saying About This

Philip Morgan

This is an impressive volume of essays that explores the contested relationship of Europe and America during the Revolutionary and post-Revolutinary era. Diplomacy and politics form the kernel of the collection, but environmental history, the history of letters, agricultural history, art history, and women's history are also included. The common thread is, of course, Jefferson, and the people who surround him. His world is richly illumined by this study.(Philip Morgan, Harry C. Black Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University, author of Strangers within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire)

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Editorial Reviews

This is an impressive volume of essays that explores the contested relationship of Europe and America during the Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary era. Diplomacy and politics form the kernel of the collection, but environmental history, the history of letters, agricultural history, art history, and women’s history are also included. The common thread is, of course, Jefferson, and the people who surround him. His world is richly illumined by this study.

Philip Morgan

"This is an impressive volume of essays that explores the contested relationship of Europe and America during the Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary era. Diplomacy and politics form the kernel of the collection, but environmental history, the history of letters, agricultural history, art history, and women’s history are also included. The common thread is, of course, Jefferson, and the people who surround him. His world is richly illumined by this study. "—Philip Morgan, Harry C. Black Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University, author of author of Strangers within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire

From the Publisher

This is an impressive volume of essays that explores the contested relationship of Europe and America during the Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary era. Diplomacy and politics form the kernel of the collection, but environmental history, the history of letters, agricultural history, art history, and women’s history are also included. The common thread is, of course, Jefferson, and the people who surround him. His world is richly illumined by this study.

author of Strangers within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire - Philip Morgan