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Travels in Revolutionary France and a Journey Across America, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

Travels in Revolutionary France and a Journey Across America

George Cadogan Morgan and Richard Price Morgan

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In July 1789 George Cadogan Morgan, born in Bridgend, Wales, and the nephew of the celebrated radical dissenter Richard Price (1723-91), found himself caught up in the opening events of the French Revolution and its consequences. In 1808, his family left Britain for America where his son, Richard Price Morgan, travelled extensively, made a descent of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers by raft and helped build some of the early American railroads. The adventures of both men are related here via letters George sent home to his family from France and through the autobiography written by his son in America.
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Mary-Ann Constantine is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. Paul Frame is a Swansea based Geological Consultant with a passion for researching Enlightenment, and particularly Welsh Enlightenment history.

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Two intriguing glimpses, both previously unpublished, into the history of a single family. George Cadogan Morgan's accounts of his travels in France at the very start of the French Revolution are a fascinating addition to our knowledge of that event; the autobiography of his son offers an equally compelling narrative of the hopes and disappointments of an immigrant from Britain trying to make a living in 19th-century America. Both are wonderfully readable, and have been expertly introduced by two outstanding scholars.

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