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The Gardiners of Massachusetts examines early nineteenth-century American political and cultural history through the lives and careers of three men from successive generations of a prominent New England family. Milford contends that the Gardiners exemplified the ambitions of the cosmopolitan middle class throughout the British Empire and English-speaking Atlantic world during the decades just before and after the American Revolution. These ambitions demonstrate a deep allegiance to the liberal vocabulary of private gains and public good - a vocabulary in which Americans had been schooled by their imperial engagements. Because of this attachment to liberalism, the disintegration of British authority in the colonies presented an acute dilemma for those New Englanders for whom the British Empire had offered an expanding array of professional opportunities.
T. A. Milford
2005, 6" x 9", Paper, Index, 306 pp.
ISBN: 9781584655046
111-M5504
