Empire et liberté, empire ou liberté : du xvie siècle en Angleterre à l’Amérique du xixe siècle
This article is an exegesis of the polysemy of the word « empire » in the era of the British American empire and after the Revolution of 1776, then of the early American Republic, between 1789 and 1840. In 1800, as Thomas Jefferson was elected president, the concept of “empire” started to bear a new...
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| Language: | English |
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Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
2017-12-01
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| Series: | XVII-XVIII |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/1718/869 |