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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Priestey, Jefferson, and Adams: The émigre and American politics

Ginsberg, Judah B.

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/127638

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Title
Priestey, Jefferson, and Adams: The émigre and American politics
Author(s)
Ginsberg, Judah B.
Issue Date
2005-09-15
Keyword(s)
  • History
  • Chemistry
  • Priestley politics
Abstract
Even before his arrival in America, Priestley had become a lightning rod for the developing split between the old Revolutionary cohorts - Jefferson and Adams. Priestley's views on the French Revolution were anathema to Adams. In America, Priestley first told Adams that he had "made it a rule to take no part whatever in the politics of a country in which I am stranger". But he could not resist speaking out on the issues of the day, from the Alien and Sedition Acts to the election of Jefferson, two crit. developments in the Jefferson-Adams split. In addn., the relationship of Jefferson and Adams each to Priestley underwent a shift, and in this sense, Priestley became a symbol of their differences and of the emerging political parties.
Publisher
Division of the History of Chemistry
ISSN
1053-4385
Type of Resource
text
Genre of Resource
article
Language
eng
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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/127638
DOI
https://doi.org/10.70359/bhc2005v030p091
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Copyright 2005 Division of the History of Chemistry

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Bulletin for the History of Chemistry: Volume 30, Number 2, 2005 PRIMARY