TY - BOOK AU - Robinson,D.H. TI - The idea of Europe and the origins of the American Revolution SN - 9780198862925 AV - E188 .R64 2020 U1 - 973.2 23 PY - 0000/// CY - , PB - KW - British colonies KW - Politics and government KW - fast KW - Colonies britanniques KW - ram KW - United States KW - History KW - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 KW - Great Britain KW - 1660-1714 KW - 1714-1837 KW - Colonies KW - America KW - 17th century KW - Europe KW - 1517-1648 KW - 1648-1715 KW - États-Unis KW - 1600-1775 (Période coloniale) KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - 1775-1783 (Révolution) KW - Origines KW - 18e siècle N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-425) and index N2 - In The Idea of Europe and the Origins of the American Revolution, Dan Robinson presents a new history of politics in colonial America and the imperial crisis, tracing how ideas of Europe and Europeanness shaped British-American political culture. Reconstructing colonial debates about the European states system, European civilisation, and Britain's position within both, Robinson shows how these concerns informed colonial attitudes towards American identity and America's place inside - and, ultimately, outside - the emerging British Empire. Taking in more than two centuries of Atlantic history, he explores the way in which colonists inherited and adapted Anglo-British traditions of thinking about international politics, how they navigated imperial politics during the European wars of 1740-1763, and how the burgeoning patriot movement negotiated the dual crisis of Europe and Empire in the between 1763 and 1775. In the process, Robinson sheds new light on the development of public politics in colonial America, the Anglicisation/Americanisation debate, the political economy of empire, early American art and poetry, eighteenth-century geopolitical thinking, and the relationship between international affairs, nationalism, and revolution. What emerges from this story is an American Revolution that seems both decidedly arcane and strikingly relevant to the political challenges of the twenty-first century ER -