Unfinished revolution: the early American republic in a British world

Conflicted and complex, American attitudes toward Great Britain provided a framework through which citizens of the republic developed a clearer sense of their national identity. Writing from the vantage point of America's unrivaled global dominance, historians have tended to see in the young na...

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1. Verfasser: Haynes, Sam W. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Charlottesville [u.a.] Univ. of Virginia Press 2010
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:Jeffersonian America
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Zusammenfassung:Conflicted and complex, American attitudes toward Great Britain provided a framework through which citizens of the republic developed a clearer sense of their national identity. Writing from the vantage point of America's unrivaled global dominance, historians have tended to see in the young nation the superpower it would become. Haynes argues that, for all its claims of distinctiveness and the "manifest destiny," the young republic exhibited a set of anxieties not uncommon among nation-states that have emerged from long periods of colonial rule.--[book jacket]
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
The axials of independence -- "What do you think of our country?" -- "Who reads an American book?" -- "American rules England tonight, by Jesus" -- The politics of Anglophobia -- "Politically free, commercial slaves" -- The money power of England -- "An army of fanatics" -- Breaking the "iron hoop" -- The Texas question -- "Looking John Bull straight in the eye" -- "Brother Jonathan is somebody"
Beschreibung:X, 378 S. Ill. 25 cm
ISBN:9780813930688
9780813930800