Old World, New World

Old World, New World: America and Europe in the Age of Jeffersongrew out of workshops in Salzburg and Charlottesville sponsored by Monticello's InternationalCenter for Jefferson Studies, and revisits a question of long-standing interest to Americanhistorians: the nature of the relationship between America and Europe during the Age of Revolution. Study of the American-European relationship in recent years has been moved forward by the notionof Atlantic history and the study of the Atlantic world. The present volume makes a freshcontribution by refocusing attention on the question of the interdependence of Europe andAmerica. Old World, New World addresses topics thatare timely, given contemporary public events, but that are also of interest to early modern andmodern historians. By turning attention from the Atlantic World in general to the relationshipbetween America and Europe, as well as using Thomas Jefferson as a lens to examine thisrelationship, this book carves out its own niche in the history of the Atlantic world in the age ofrevolution.