Sie befinden Sich nicht im Netzwerk der Universität Paderborn. Der Zugriff auf elektronische Ressourcen ist gegebenenfalls nur via VPN oder Shibboleth (DFN-AAI) möglich. mehr Informationen...
A View from Abroad: The Story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe
Auflage
1
Ort / Verlag
New York: NYU Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Reveals how the European travels of John and Abigail
Adams helped define what it meant to be an American
From 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.