A01=Doina Pasca Harsanyi
Aristocracy
Author_Doina Pasca Harsanyi
Category=NHD
Category=NHK
Emigration
eq_bestseller
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
French-American relations
Liberalism
Nobility - France
united states
us
usa
Product details
- ISBN 9780271036373
- Weight: 481g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Apr 2010
- Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Every war has refugees; every revolution has exiles. Most of the refugees of the French Revolution mourned the demise of the monarchy. ""Lessons from America"" examines an unusual group who did not. Doina Pasca Harsanyi looks at the American experience of a group of French liberal aristocrats, early participants in the French Revolution, who weathered the Reign of Terror in Philadelphia. The book traces their path from enlightened salons to revolutionary activism to subsequent exile in America and, finally, back to government posts in France - illuminating the ways in which the French experiment in democracy was informed by the American experience.
Doina Pasca Harsanyi is Associate Professor of History at Central Michigan University.
