Rediscovery of America

STUART ANDREWS was a scholar of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, in the 1950s, after national service in the Parachute Brigade. He is author of three other books on the eighteenth century, and of numerous articles and reviews. Besides teaching his career has included such part-time roles as librarian, editor of a professional journal, school inspector and freelance lecturer. He has also been Headmaster of Norwich School and Clifton College.

• Preface Acknowledgements PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Discovery and Re-discovery: Planters, Puritans and Philosophes PART TWO: FOUNDING FATHERS IN AMERICA Porcelain and Revolutionary Principles: Franklin and the French American Encyclop�ste : Jefferson at Home and Abroad Reluctant Philosophe : John Adams and Republican Government PART THREE: TRANS-ATLANTIC CITIZENS Bridging the Atlantic: Paine's Three Revolutions Burke's Grasshoppers: Dr Price as 'Apostle of Liberty' Flammable Gas: Priestley as Propagandist Land-agent of Liberty: South Carolina's Thomas Cooper PART FOUR: FRENCHMEN IN AMERICA Slaves, Quakers and 'Free Americans': Brissot's America and the French Revolution Hero of Two Worlds: La Fayette, Freemasons and Liberty Allies in Arms: S�r, Lauzun and Chastellux PART FIVE: IMAGES AND VISIONS Arm-chair Philosophy: Raynal's Best-seller The American Farmer: Hector St John Cr�coeur Women and Emigrants: Mary Wollstonecraft and Gilbert Imlay Poets' Utopia: Coleridge, Southey and the Susquehanna North American Naturalists: Bartram and Audubon Notes Bibliography Index