商品簡介
Covering the seven decades between the start of the French and Indian War in the mid-1750s and the articulation of the Monroe Doctrine, this history by Gould (history, U. of New Hampshire) explores how Americans sought to engage in relations with other nations as a treaty-worthy nation worthy of being thought of as among "the powers of the earth," arguing that these processes played a role in the making of the American republic that was at least as important as the liberal and republican ideologies that have occupied much of scholarship on the American Revolution since World War II. He discusses how processes of negotiation over borders, maritime trade, the slave trade, and relations with neighbors served to secure for Americans many of the rights they wished for from the European powers and how they often served to create new forms of hierarchy, dependency, and languages of exclusion, typically at the expense of people of color, including the Indians whose colonial autonomy was transformed into dependent nationhood and the African Americans suffering under the slave system that was ironically consolidated by the ending of the international slave trade (prompted by a wish to conform to European norms in order to be seen as treaty-worthy). Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Eliga Gould is Associate Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire
Author's Home: Portsmouth, NH
