Among the powers of the earth : the American Revolution and the making of a new world empire
2012
973.32 G696 2012
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Title
Among the powers of the earth : the American Revolution and the making of a new world empire
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Description
301 p., [22] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number
973.32 G696 2012
System Control No.
(OCoLC)748941753
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-283) and index.
Contents: Introduction: a nation among nations -- On the margins of Europe -- The law of slavery -- Pax Britannica -- Independence -- A slaveholding republic -- The new world and the old -- Epilogue: Mr. Monroe's peace.
L2012M74
The American Revolution was an international transformation of the first importance. To conform to the public law of Europe's imperial powers, Americans crafted a union nearly as centralized as the one they had overthrown, endured taxes heavier than any they had faced as British colonists, and remained entangled with European Atlantic empires long after the Revolution ended. Author follows the region's transfiguration from a fluid periphery with its own rules and norms to a place where people of all descriptions were expected to abide by the laws of Western Europe -- 'civilized' laws that precluded neither slavery nor the dispossession of Native Americans--Book jacket.
Contents: Introduction: a nation among nations -- On the margins of Europe -- The law of slavery -- Pax Britannica -- Independence -- A slaveholding republic -- The new world and the old -- Epilogue: Mr. Monroe's peace.
L2012M74
The American Revolution was an international transformation of the first importance. To conform to the public law of Europe's imperial powers, Americans crafted a union nearly as centralized as the one they had overthrown, endured taxes heavier than any they had faced as British colonists, and remained entangled with European Atlantic empires long after the Revolution ended. Author follows the region's transfiguration from a fluid periphery with its own rules and norms to a place where people of all descriptions were expected to abide by the laws of Western Europe -- 'civilized' laws that precluded neither slavery nor the dispossession of Native Americans--Book jacket.
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