Old World, New World

Synopsis

Old World, New World: America and Europe in the Age of Jefferson

grew out of workshops in Salzburg and Charlottesville sponsored by Monticello's International

Center for Jefferson Studies, and revisits a question of long-standing interest to American

historians: 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 notion

of Atlantic history and the study of the Atlantic world. The present volume makes a fresh

contribution by refocusing attention on the question of the interdependence of Europe and

America. Old World, New World addresses topics that

are timely, given contemporary public events, but that are also of interest to early modern and

modern historians. By turning attention from the Atlantic World in general to the relationship

between America and Europe, as well as using Thomas Jefferson as a lens to examine this

relationship, this book carves out its own niche in the history of the Atlantic world in the age of

revolution.