Transoceanic Radical William Duane National Identity And Empire 17601835

"This is the first biography of William Duane to study his American career in light of his formative years in Ireland, England and India." "Duane was an influential radical journalist. He is most famous as the editor of the Aurora, the Philadelphia-based paper which vigorously supported Thomas Jefferson in his 1800 presidential election campaign. Although Duane presented himself as a US citizen by birth, he was born in Newfoundland and a British subject. Nigel Little explores how the influence of Thomas Paine, membership of the London Corresponding Society and a ruinous dispute with the East India Company helped shape Duane's later Republican convictions. This monograph is based on extensive archival research in England, the United States and Ireland."--Jacket.