Oxford University Press

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Overturning the old American cliches about "e;Gay Paree"e; or the "e;City of Lights,"e;   Becoming Americans in Paris offers a darker and more nuanced portrait of how Americans helped to shape the cultural politics of Paris between the wars, and, at the same time, how Paris helped to shape modern American political culture....

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This volume of eight essays examines the role that religious traditions, practices        and beliefs played in women's involvement in the British and American campaigns to        abolish slavery during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It        focuses on women who belonged to the Puritan and dissenting traditions....

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