Among the Powers of the Earth : The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire / Eliga H. Gould.
Gould, Eliga H., author.
2012
E249 .G68 2012
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Title Among the Powers of the Earth : The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire / Eliga H. Gould.
Author Gould, Eliga H., author.
ISBN 9780674065024
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674065024
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource : 26 halftones, 6 maps
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674065024 doi
Call Number E249 .G68 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 973.3/2
Summary For most Americans, the Revolution's main achievement is summed up by the phrase "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Yet far from a straightforward attempt to be free of Old World laws and customs, the American founding was also a bid for inclusion in the community of nations as it existed in 1776. America aspired to diplomatic recognition under international law and the authority to become a colonizing power itself. As Eliga Gould shows in this reappraisal of American history, the 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. No factor weighed more heavily on Americans than the legally plural Atlantic where they hoped to build their empire. Gould 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.
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Frontmatter
Contents
MAPS
Introduction
Chapter 1. On the Margins of Europe
Chapter 2. The Law of Slavery
Chapter 3. Pax Britannica
Chapter 4. Independence
Chapter 5. A Slaveholding Republic
Chapter 6. The New World and the Old
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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