Subjects
Transoceanic Radical, William Duane:
National Identity and Empire, 1760–1835
Nigel Little
Empires in Perspective
978 1 85196 929 6: 234x156mm: £60.00/$99.00
978 1 85196 555 7
This is the first biography of William Duane to study his American career in light of his formative years in Ireland, England and India.
Duane was an influential radical journalist. He is most famous as the editor of The Aurora, the Philadelphia-based paper which vigorously supported Thomas Jefferson in his 1800 presidential election campaign. Although Duane presented himself as a US citizen by birth, he was born in Newfoundland and a British subject. Little explores how the influence of Thomas Paine, membership of the London Corresponding Society and a ruinous dispute with the East India Company helped shape Duane’s later Republican convictions. This monograph is based on extensive archival research in England, the United States and Ireland.
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Readership
Irish, Indian and American History, History of Print and Publishing, Eighteenth-Century Studies
Contents
Introduction
1 Origins
2 The ‘great gulf of all undone beings’
3 The Bengal Journal
4 An Indian World
5 ‘Tribe of Editors’: Censorship and the Indian Press, 1780–99
6 London Interlude
7 Mythical Homeland Made
8 Jeffersonian Victory
9 Towards 1812
10 The Later Years: 1815–35
Reviews
'Little's biography is a superb radical history and highlights a man who played a leading role in the struggle for liberty in three continents."
– Terry Liddle, The Journal of Radical History
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