Americomania and the French Revolution Debate in Britain, 1789–1802 (Paperback)

Introduction: utopianism in practice: the American front of the French Revolution in Britain, 1789?1802; 1. 'The war of systems': print culture and the institutionalization of the political divide in the 1790s; 2. 'Cultivators of the earth': the American crisis and the emergence of the freehold farmer, 1763?83; 3. 'Rabies Agri': or, wilderness for sale; 4. 'The calculated rise of the American empire': the radicalization of American utopianism; 5. 'The mania of emigration': new philosophers in the wilderness; 6. 'The precious pearl of liberty': from Newgate Prison to Ohiopiomingo; 7. 'Come to these Arcadian regions where there is room for millions': politics for the people; 8. 'Look before you leap': the demonization of Jacobin America; 9. 'Parrying the enemy with their own weapons': dystopianism and the popular discourse of fear; Postscript. 'Mania reformation': the demise of transatlantic utopianism.