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The American Revolution and the Habsburg Monarchy

Title

The American Revolution and the Habsburg Monarchy / Jonathan Singerton.

Author

Singerton, Jonathan, 1991-

Publication

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2022]
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Description

xviii, 366 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book presents the American Revolution from the perspective of the Habsburg monarchy. It reveals how, despite seeming antithetical to the American cause, the Habsburg dynasty and people in the Habsburg lands realized the opportunity unleashed by the creation of the thirteen United States of America, demonstrating the wider effects of the American Revolution beyond the standard Atlantic World and portraying the Habsburg Monarchy in a new, oceanic light"--

Series Statement

The Revolutionary age

Uniform Title

Revolutionary age (Charlottesville, Va.)

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Chapter one. "England Is the Motherland and America the Daughter?": Colonial and Revolutionary America in the Habsburg Mind -- Chapter two. "Some Here Are Warm for the Part of America": The American Revolution and the Imperial Court at Vienna, 1776-1783 -- Chapter three. "Angels of the New Republic": The American Revolutionary Influence in the Habsburg Lands, 1776-1789 -- Chapter four. "The Big and Furious Game": The Difficulty of Habsburg Neutrality in the War of American Independence, 1775-1783 -- Chapter five. "The Long, Laborious, and Most Odious Task": The First Struggle for Recognition between the Habsburg Monarchy and the United States of America, 1776-1779 -- Chapter six. "Wedded to the System They Have Embraced": The Habsburgs as Mediators and Profiteers in the War of American Independence, 1780-1783 -- Chapter seven. "A New Set of Merchants": The Development of Post-war Commerce between the Habsburg Monarchy and the United States of America, 1783-1785 -- Chapter eight. "If His Imperial Majesty Should Think Fit": The First Habsburg Representatives in the United States of America, 1783-1789 -- Chapter nine. "A Trifling Personage": Thomas Jefferson and the Second Struggle for Recognition between the Habsburg Monarchy and the United States of America, 1785-1786 -- Epilogue. "I am happy only when I can find a new world for myself": the residue of revolution in the Habsburg lands, 1787-1795.

Call Number

JFE 22-4469

ISBN

9780813948218
0813948215
9780813948225
0813948223

LCCN

2021054500
40031245424

OCLC

1285566350

Author

Singerton, Jonathan, 1991- author.

Title

The American Revolution and the Habsburg Monarchy / Jonathan Singerton.

Publisher

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2022]

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The Revolutionary age

Revolutionary age (Charlottesville, Va.)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1700-1799

Other Form:

Online version: Singerton, Jonathan, 1991- American Revolution and the Habsburg Monarchy Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021 9780813948232 (DLC) 2021054501

Other Standard Identifier

40031245424

Research Call Number

JFE 22-4469

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