9780807848180-0807848182-Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions

Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions

ISBN-13: 9780807848180
ISBN-10: 0807848182
Edition: 2nd ed.
Author: Lloyd S. Kramer
Publication date: 1999
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Paperback 368 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780807848180
ISBN-10: 0807848182
Edition: 2nd ed.
Author: Lloyd S. Kramer
Publication date: 1999
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Paperback 368 pages

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Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions (ISBN-13: 9780807848180 and ISBN-10: 0807848182), written by authors Lloyd S. Kramer, was published by The University of North Carolina Press in 1999. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other United States (Historical, Political, Leaders & Notable People, France, European History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used United States books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Lloyd Kramer offers a new interpretation of the cultural and political significance of the career of the Marquis de Lafayette, which spanned the American Revolution, the French Revolutions of 1789 and 1830, and the Polish Uprising of 1830-31. Moving beyond traditional biography, Kramer traces the wide-ranging influence of Lafayette's public and personal life, including his contributions to the emergence of nationalist ideologies in Europe and America, his extensive connections with liberal political theorists, and his close friendships with prominent writers, many of them women. Kramer places Lafayette on the cusp of the two worlds of America and France, politics and literature, the Enlightenment and the Romantic movement, public affairs and private life, revolution and nationalism, and men and women. He argues that Lafayette's experiences reveal how public figures can symbolize the aspirations of a society as a whole, and he stresses Lafayette's important role in a cultural network of contemporaries that included Germaine de Stael, Benjamin Constant, Frances Wright, James Fenimore Cooper, and Alexis de Tocqueville. History/Biography

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