Revolutionary in Exile: The Emigration of Joseph Priestley to America, 1794-1804 Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 85, Part 2

by Jenny Graham

In 1794, approx. 10,000 persons emigrated from Europe, esp. England, to the U.S. Many of them played an active role in the English radical movement that developed in the French revolutionary era, and were a vital component in the emergence of the philosophy that came to be known as Jeffersonian Republicanism. This study examines the career of one who was arguably the most prominent of all the political exiles from England at this time, the radical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871698528
• ISBN13: 9780871698520
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.8" x 10.0"