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A View from Abroad: The Story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe

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By (author): Jeanne E. Abrams

Reveals how the European travels of John and Abigail Adams helped define what it meant to be an American
From 1778 to 1788, the Founding Father and later President John Adams lived in Europe as a diplomat. Joined by his wife, Abigail, in 1784, the two shared rich encounters with famous heads of the European royal courts, including the ill-fated King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette, and the staid British Monarchs King George III and Queen Charlotte.
In this engaging narrative, A View from Abroad takes us on the first full exploration of the Adamss lives abroad. Jeanne E. Abrams reveals how the journeys of John and Abigail Adams not only changed the course of their intellectual, political, and cultural developmenttransforming the couple from provincials to sophisticated world travelersbut most importantly served to strengthen their loyalty to America.
Abrams shines a new light on how the Adamses and their American contemporaries set about supplanting their British origins with a new American identity. They and their fellow Americans grappled with how to reorder their society as the new nation took its place in the international transatlantic world. After just a short time abroad, Abigail maintained that, My Heart and Soul is more American than ever. We are a family by ourselves. The Adamses quest to define what it means to be an American, and the answers they discovered in their time abroad, still resonate with us to this day.

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  • Weight: 386g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Feb 2024
  • Publisher: New York University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781479827459

About Jeanne E. Abrams

Jeanne E. Abrams is Professor at the University Libraries and the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver where she is also Director of the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society and Curator of the Beck Archives Special Collections. She is the author of First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington Abigail Adams Dolley Madison and the Creation of an Iconic American Role and Revolutionary Medicine: The Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and in Health.

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