Lloyd Kramer offers a new interpretation of the cultural and political significance of the career of the Marquis de Lafayette, which spanned the American Revolution, the French Revolutions of 1789 and 1830, and the Polish Uprising of 1830-31. Moving beyond traditional biography, Kramer traces the wide-ranging influence of Lafayette's public and personal life, including his contributions to the emergence of nationalist ideologies in Europe and America, his extensive connections with liberal political theorists, and his close friendships with prominent writers, many of them women. Kramer places Lafayette on the cusp of the two worlds of America and France, politics and literature, the Enlightenment and the Romantic movement, public affairs and private life, revolution and nationalism, and men and women. He argues that Lafayette's experiences reveal how public figures can symbolize the aspirations of a society as a whole, and he stresses Lafayette's important role in a cultural network of contemporaries that included Germaine de Sta'l, Benjamin Constant, Frances Wright, James Fenimore Cooper, and Alexis de Tocqueville.
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An innovative interpretation of the cultural and political significance of the career of the Marquis de Lafayette. In establishing Lafayette•s contributions to the emergence of nationalist ideologies in Europe and America, Kramer shows he reflected and illuminated the cultures of his times.
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America's Revolution became the first significant public event in Lafayette's long career. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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United States, Chamber of Deputies, Lady Morgan, New York, American Revolution, Fanny Wright, Maria Malibran, Greek Revolution, Benjamin Constant, July Revolution, Ary Scheffer, James Fenimore Cooper, National Assembly, Destutt de Tracy, John Quincy Adams, New Orleans, July Days, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Cristina Belgiojoso, George Washington, Jeremy Bentham, Mary Shelley, American-Polish Committee, American National Identity New!
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cause polonaise, politique constitutionnelle, liberal deputies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Chamber of Deputies, Lady Morgan, New York, American Revolution, Fanny Wright, Maria Malibran, Greek Revolution, Benjamin Constant, July Revolution, Ary Scheffer, James Fenimore Cooper, National Assembly, Destutt de Tracy, John Quincy Adams, New Orleans, July Days, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Cristina Belgiojoso, George Washington, Jeremy Bentham, Mary Shelley, American-Polish Committee, American National Identity New!
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- The Letters of Lafayette and Jefferson (Johns Hopkins Studies in International Thought.) by Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de Lafayette on 5 pages
- French Revolution (Wars That Changed the World) by Ken Hills on 4 pages
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- The Man Who Had Been King: The American Exile of Napoleon's Brother Joseph by Patricia Tyson Stroud in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Eve's Proud Descendants: Four Women Writers and Republican Politics in Nineteenth-Century France by Whitney Walton in Back Matter
- Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans by Joyce Appleby in Back Matter
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