The Genesis of America investigates the ways in which US foreign policy contributed to the formation of an American national consciousness. Interpreting American nationalism as a process of external demarcation, Jasper M. Trautsch argues that, for a sense of national self to emerge, the US needed to...

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1. Verfasser:	Trautsch, Jasper (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Abschlussarbeit Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore Cambridge University Press 2020
Schriftenreihe:	Cambridge studies in US foreign relations
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1793-1815 Nationalism / United States / History / 18th century Nationalism / United States / History / 19th century Nationalbewusstsein Innenpolitik Außenpolitik United States / Foreign relations / 1783-1815 USA Hochschulschrift
Zusammenfassung:	The Genesis of America investigates the ways in which US foreign policy contributed to the formation of an American national consciousness. Interpreting American nationalism as a process of external demarcation, Jasper M. Trautsch argues that, for a sense of national self to emerge, the US needed to be disentangled from its most important European reference points: Great Britain and France. As he shows, foreign-policy makers could therefore promote American nationalism by provoking foreign crises and wars with these countries, hereby creating external threats that would bind the fragile union together. By reconstructing how foreign policy was thus used as a nation-building instrument, Trautsch provides an answer to the puzzling question of how Americans - lacking a shared history and culture of their own and justifying their claim for independent nationhood by appeals to universal rights - could develop a sense of particularity after the conclusion of the Revolutionary War
Beschreibung:	xiv, 314 Seiten 10 Illustrationen
ISBN:	9781108453547