List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Transatlantic Utopianism and the Rise of Partisan Political Discourse; 1 "The War of Systems"; Systemic Rivalry; Politics for the People; Popular Politics and the Mediation of Print; 2 "Cultivators of the Earth"; Scenographia Americana: The Iconography of a Wilderness Farm; "Cultivators of the earth": Transcendence and the "Practiced Utopia"; 3 "Rabies Agri"; Promised Lands; Symbiosis of Land and Print; 4 "The Calculated Rise of the American Empire"; A Jacobin Empire on the Ohio; Rewriting the American Constitution
5 "The Mania of Emigration"The Promised Land of Kentucky; "Where Liberty is, There is Our Country"; 6 "The Precious Pearl of Liberty"; 7 "Come to These Arcadian Regions Where There Is Room for Millions"; The Americanization of the British Novel; "Here is a Continual Feast for the Mind"; The Radicalization of the British Novel; 8 "Look Before You Leap"; Antidote for Americomania; "Lo! Priestley there, Patriot, and Saint, and Sage!"; "The Tree of Liberty is Smothered with Weeds"; 9 "Parrying the Enemy with Their Own Weapons"; Old Whigs and New Philosophers on the Frontier: Berkeley Hall
The American Front of the French Revolution Debate in Britain: The VagabondPostscript "Mania Reformatio"; Bibliography of Cited Materials; Index
Summary
This book explores the evolution of British identity and participatory politics in the 1790s
