Wil Verhoeven: 2 books
by Wil Verhoeven
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
This book explores the evolution of British identity and participatory politics in the 1790s. Wil Verhoeven argues that in the course of the French Revolution debate in Britain, the idea of 'America' came to represent for the British people the choice between two diametrically opposed models of social...
Gilbert Imlay
Citizen of the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
A biography of the American Gilbert Imlay (c 1754 - c 1828), revolutionary war veteran - and infamous lover of Mary Wollstonecraft. It also highlights how Imlay unwittingly acted as an intermediary between figures of greater significance, whose ideas, ambitions and schemes he frequently borrowed and disseminated across the Atlantic and continents.