{"product_id":"echoes-of-a-distant-republic-italian-perspectives-on-the-american-and-french-revolutions-9780813955780","title":"Echoes of a Distant Republic: Italian Perspectives on the American and French Revolutions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow the American and French Revolutions were interpreted in the Italian states and how that understanding helped redefine the concept of revolution itself\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eEchoes of a Distant Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, Anna Vincenzi explores the evolving meaning of \"revolution\" in the eighteenth century by surveying the reactions in Italy to the upheavals in America and later France. Drawing on a wide range of sources--from periodicals and gazettes to diplomatic correspondence, ecclesiastical documents, and private letters--Vincenzi reveals how observers in Venice, Florence, Rome, and Naples made sense of events across the Atlantic from the 1770s to the 1790s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eItalian political thinkers at first did not treat the American experience as a revolution in the modern sense--a radical break with the past meant to establish an egalitarian society--but rather as the culmination of a long age of reform. It was the French Revolution, Vincenzi shows, that made the American Revolution appear, only in retrospect, as the beginning of a new age. What had once seemed a circumscribed, reformist movement within the anglophone world came to be understood as an epoch-making event--an invitation to revolution in Europe against the monarchies of the Old Regime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anna Vincenzi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/25\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e The Revolutionary Age\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813955780","brand":"University of Virginia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48531879198857,"sku":"9780813955780","price":37.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_dfb89f92-bcc5-4d01-9097-77091f39971b.jpg?v=1791325073","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/echoes-of-a-distant-republic-italian-perspectives-on-the-american-and-french-revolutions-9780813955780","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}