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Lafayette in transnational context : identity, travel, and nationalism in the Revolutionary Atlantic world / edited by Jordan Kellman.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834.
- Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier.
- Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834--Travel--United States.
- Travel.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French.
- United States.
- History.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.
- France.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 131 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lafayette, LA : University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- Exploring the many facets of the Marquis de Lafayette's life and career as the greatest transatlantic figure of the American Revolution, this collection captures the powerful forces he marshaled to bring the culture and resources of Old Regime France to the Revolutionary fight for the young American Republic and to translate the new ideals that he absorbed there for the French revolutionary struggle. The essays also confront deep questions about the nature of nationality, patriotism, and citizenship as they played out at the dawn of the modern nation-state and trace their implications for the modern world. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Jordan Kellman
- 1. Lafayette's historical legacy : politics, culture, and the modern world / Lloyd Kramer
- 2. History, heroes, and national identity : the Marquis de Lafayette's visit to New Orleans in 1825 / Sandra Frink
- 3. Lafayette and the fall of the French monarchy / Sylvia Neely
- 4. Lafayette, agent of the "American mission" / Anne C. Loveland
- 5. Bridges to freedom : Lafayette's use of revolutionary rhetoric in the political strategies of his tours / Robert Rhodes Crout
- 6. Culture clash in Louisiana's territorial period : the Marquis de Lafayette's American land grants / Todd Bourque
- 7. The Marquis de Lafayette and Lafayette, Louisiana : identity and irony / Michael S. Martin
- 8. Revolution, integrity v. hypocrisy, Lafayette and others : a historical commentary / Brad Pollock.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781935754671
- 193575467X
- OCLC:
- 908192752
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