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Citizens of a Common Intellectual Homeland explores the simultaneous emergence of modern concepts of democracy and the nation on both sides of the Atlantic during the age of revolutions.To illustrate the transatlantic emergence of these ideas, Armin Mattes considers the works of pairs of prominent intellectual contemporaries?one in America and the other in Europe?each writing on a common topic. This novels approach of pairing prominent thinkers from both continents highlights the significant impact that the French Revolution had on the development of thought in the period, demonstrating that America was intimately tied to revolutionary events and processes in the larger Atlantic world.

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A fantastically sophisticated, yet crystal clear work of intellectual history. --Seth Cotlar, Willamette University

How did Americans come to see democracy as desirable? In Citizens of a Common Intellectual Homeland, Armin Mattes takes up this classic question but answers it in a fresh way, introducing the reader to a series of fascinating transatlantic conversations, among figures famous and obscure alike, about what a postrevolutionary world should look like. This is a highly ambitious account of the intellectual preoccupations of the age of revolutions.--Sophia Rosenfeld, University of Virginia, author of Common Sense: A Political History

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Armin Mattes is Research Fellow with the Kinder Forum on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri, USA.

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