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. 1956- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Charlottesville [ua.] Univ. of Virginia Press 2011
Ausgabe:1. pbk. ed.
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
Beschreibung:X, 378 S. Ill.
ISBN:9780813931807

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