Author:
Singerton, Jonathan, 1991- author.
ImprintCharlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022.
Descriptionxviii, 366 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Note:"This book is published as part of the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot." -- Page vii.
Note:"England is the motherland and America the daughter?": colonial and Revolutionary America in the Habsburg mind -- "Some here are warm for the part of America": the American Revolution and the imperial court at Vienna, 1776-1783 -- "Angels of the new republic": the American Revolutionary influence in the Habsburg lands, 1776-1789 -- "The big and furious game": the difficulty of Habsburg neutrality in the War of American Independence, 1775-1783 -- "The long, laborious, and most odious task": the first struggle for recognition between the Habsburg monarchy and the United States of America, 1776-1779 -- "Wedded to the system they have embraced": the Habsburgs as mediators and profiteers in the War of American Independence, 1780-1783 -- "A new set of merchants": the development of post-war commerce between the Habsburg monarchy and the United States of America, 1783-1785 -- "If his imperial majesty should think fit": the first Habsburg representatives in the United States of America, 1783-1789 -- "A trifling personage": Thomas Jefferson and the second struggle for recognition between the Habsburg monarchy and the United States of America, 1785-1786 -- "I am happy only when I can find a new world for myself": the residue of revolution in the Habsburg lands, 1787-1795.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-345) and index.
Note:"This book presents the American Revolution from the perspective of the Habsburg monarchy. It reveals how, despite seeming antithetical to the American cause, the Habsburg dynasty and people in the Habsburg lands realized the opportunity unleashed by the creation of the thirteen United States of America, demonstrating the wider effects of the American Revolution beyond the standard Atlantic World and portraying the Habsburg Monarchy in a new, oceanic light."-- Provided by publisher.
