Unfinished Revolution - The Early American Republic in a British World

Informationen zum Autor Sam W. Haynes is Professor in the Department of History and the Director of the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies at the University of Texas Arlington. Klappentext As part of the Jeffersonian America series, "Unfinished Revolution" argues that, for all its vaunted claims of distinctiveness and the soaring rhetoric of manifest destiny, our young republic exhibited a set of anxieties not uncommon among nation-states that have emerged from long periods of colonial rule. Zusammenfassung 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. This argues that, for all its vaunted claims of distinctiveness and the soaring rhetoric of “manifest destiny”, the young republic exhibited a set of anxieties not uncommon among nation-states that have emerged from long periods of colonial rule.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Sam W Haynes, Sam W. Haynes
• Verlag: University of Virginia Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 15.11.2010
• EAN: 9780813930688
• ISBN: 978-0-8139-3068-8
• Seiten: 400
• Serien: Jeffersonian America (Hardcove; Jeffersonian America (Hardcove; Jeffersonian America
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Neuzeit bis 1918; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges