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The Two Julys: The Fourth and The Fourteenth
Two meetings in one in Philadelphia, the other in Versailles. On 4 July, 1776, the distinguished delegates of the Second Continental Congress convened at Philadelphia State House to frame and debate the terms of a Declaration. Subsequently, on 20 June, 1789, representatives of the Third Estate gathered in a tennis court to swear a solemn Oath. This book describes these pivotal meetings separated by thirteen years and a vast ocean. Both of them represent enduring and resolute attempts at revolutionary nation or state building. Both were built on a dream of universal franchise. Both have in the intervening years taken on the status of myth.
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Peter de Bolla is Professor of Cultural History at the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, with visiting roles at Siegen, Vanderbilt, NYU and Uppsala University. His research focuses on 18th century British cultural history, aesthetics, and digital knowledge. His Architecture of Concepts earned the Robert Lowery Patten Award in 2015.
Christopher Prendergast is Emeritus Professor at Cambridge University and a Life Fellow of King’s College. He has taught at the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York and at Copenhagen University as well holding visiting positions at UCLA, Princeton, and Berkeley.He specialises in French 19th and 20th century literature and cultural history, and has been twice winner of the Gapper Prize in French Studies.
De Bolla and Prendergast are both members of the European Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
About the
Peter de Bolla is Professor of Cultural History at the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, with visiting roles at Siegen, Vanderbilt, NYU and Uppsala University. His research focuses on 18th century British cultural history, aesthetics, and digital knowledge. His Architecture of Concepts earned the Robert Lowery Patten Award in 2015.
Christopher Prendergast is Emeritus Professor at Cambridge University and a Life Fellow of King’s College. He has taught at the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York and at Copenhagen University as well holding visiting positions at UCLA, Princeton, and Berkeley.He specialises in French 19th and 20th century literature and cultural history, and has been twice winner of the Gapper Prize in French Studies.
De Bolla and Prendergast are both members of the European Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
370 pages, Paperback
Published March 17, 2024
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