The Scots' Response to the American Revolution: A North British Vision of Empire, Constitution, and Representation

Autor: Petroff, Florence

This article is a summary of my PhD dissertation with a focus on the issue of representation in the American controversy. It contends that the American colonists and the Scots imagined two competing versions of Britishness that both claimed to be bas

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The American Revolution and Scotland (1765-1783)

Autor: Petroff, Florence

Publikováno v: The Republics of France and the United States: 240 Years of Friendship
The Republics of France and the United States: 240 Years of Friendship, The Fred W. Smith National Library for the study of George Washington at Mount Vernon and Université Paris VIII, Sep 2019, Paris, France

International audience; This paper argues that their perception of the Scots played a significant part in the thought of America's Founding Fathers. Not only was Scotland viewed as an enemy -due to the commitment of Highlanders in the British army- b

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https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02309218

William Robertson’s unfinished History of America

Autor: Petroff, Florence

Historian and clergyman William Robertson never completed his history of British America. His initial project, that of glorifying the power of the British Empire, no longer made sense when the Thirteen Colonies became independent. This paper analyses

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https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02132597

Rebellion or Revolution? The Scottish Revolts in the Light of the American Revolution: an Atlantic Mirror (1765-1799)

Autor: Petroff, Florence

Publikováno v: Revolution(s). Congrès de la SAES (Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur) 2018
Revolution(s). Congrès de la SAES (Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur) 2018, Atelier XVII-XVIII, organisé sous l’égide de la Société d’Études Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles et coordonné par Sandrine Parageau et Clotilde Prunier, Jun 2018, Nanterre, France

This paper explores the notions of rebellion and revolution in relation with the Thirteen Colonies and Scotland from the Stamp Act crisis (1765-66) to the death of George Washington (1799).The colonists were described as rebels in a number of Scottis

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https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01864656