A View from Abroad : : The Story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe / / Jeanne E. Abrams.
Reveals how the European travels of John and Abigail Adams helped define what it meant to be an AmericanFrom 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 E...
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Abrams, Jeanne E., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut A View from Abroad : The Story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe / Jeanne E. Abrams. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2021] ©2021 1 online resource : 11 b/w illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction An American Journey -- John Adams An American in Paris -- Second Journey to Europe -- Abigail in France From the New World to the Old -- Abigail and John in London American Yankees in King George’s Court -- The Final Years Abroad John and Abigail Return to America -- Conclusion John and Abigail in a New America -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Reveals how the European travels of John and Abigail Adams helped define what it meant to be an AmericanFrom 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 Adams’s 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 development—transforming the couple from provincials to sophisticated world travelers—but 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Adams, John,-1735-1826-Travel. Ambassadors United States Biography. Diplomats' spouses United States Biography. HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800). bisacsh 1789 Constitution. American future. American identity. American nationhood. American oligarchy. American virtue. Benjamin Franklin. Count Vergennes. Court of St. James’s. Defence of the Constitutions of the United States. Dutch Diplomacy. Early American diplomacy. English society. European society. Excessive opulence. French Diplomacy. French manners. French royal court. French society. French women. John Quincy Adams. King George III. London society. Nabby Adams. Opulent lifestyle. Parisian elite. Queen Charlotte. Return to America. Shay’s Rebellion. Spanish society. The Binghams. Thomas Jefferson. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English 9783110754001 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 9783110753776 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2021 English 9783110754087 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2021 9783110753851 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 9783110739107 print 9781479802876 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479802883.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479802883 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479802883/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction An American Journey -- John Adams An American in Paris -- Second Journey to Europe -- Abigail in France From the New World to the Old -- Abigail and John in London American Yankees in King George’s Court -- The Final Years Abroad John and Abigail Return to America -- Conclusion John and Abigail in a New America -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
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