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Informationen zum Autor By Michael J. Turner Klappentext America was important to many British radicals. It was a model, an exemplar, a source of inspiration, and American events were believed to have a bearing on reform debates in Britain. Many scholars focus on the positive impressions of the United States that prominent British radicals entertained, developed, and propagated, but it is necessary also to explore the reasons why some radicals condemned rather than praised America, and to explain how America was conceptualized and used by them, and to what purpose. Liberty and Liberticide focuses on the influence America exerted over the ideas and activities of nineteenth-century British radicals. While some looked on America as the model of liberty, others associated it with the destruction of liberty. Turner shows how radicals' views about the United States and the course of Anglo-American relations shaped their domestic reform agenda and their assumptions about British political values and Britain's place in the world. Liberty and Liberticide represents a valuable contribution to the growing literature on the transatlantic dimensions of British radicalism. Michael Turner's thought-provoking and insightful study provides a salutary demonstration that America's status as the bastion of liberty was never accepted universally or uncritically in Britain, even by those who championed democratic reform at home and overseas. This book will be of interest to students of nineteenth-century radicalism, and should be read by anyone who wants a deeper understanding of the complexities and ambiguities of British attitudes towards America before, during and after the American Civil War. -- Simon Morgan, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1 The Politics and Rhetoric of AdmirationChapter 2 Eulogies with ReservationsChapter 3 The Growth of Anti-Americanism: Tariffs, Slavery, and U.S. Foreign PolicyChapter 4 American Crisis, part oneChapter 5 American Crisis, part twoChapter 6 After the Civil WarChapter 7 Late Nineteenth-Century Political and Economic ContextsConclusionIndex...
