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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aGould, Eliga H.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aAmong the Powers of the Earth :
_bThe American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire /
_cEliga H. Gould.
264 1 _aCambridge, MA :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c[2012]
264 4 _c©2012
300 _a1 online resource :
_b26 halftones, 6 maps
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _t Frontmatter --
_tContents --
_tMAPS --
_tIntroduction --
_tChapter 1. On the Margins of Europe --
_tChapter 2. The Law of Slavery --
_tChapter 3. Pax Britannica --
_tChapter 4. Independence --
_tChapter 5. A Slaveholding Republic --
_tChapter 6. The New World and the Old --
_tEpilogue --
_tNotes --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aFor 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.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
650 7 _0(DE-601)104160616
_0(DE-588)4187276-9
_aAmerikanische Revolution
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650 7 _aHISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800).
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674065024
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