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Unfinished revolution : the early American republic in a British world /
Conflicted and complex, American attitudes toward Great Britain provided a framework through which citizens of the republic developed a clearer sense of their national identity. Writing from the vantage point of America's unrivaled global dominance, historians have tended to see in the young na...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Jeffersonian America.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Conflicted and complex, American attitudes toward Great Britain provided a framework through which citizens of the republic developed a clearer sense of their national identity. 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. Haynes argues that, for all its claims of distinctiveness and the "manifest destiny," the young republic exhibited a set of anxieties not uncommon among nation-states that have emerged from long periods of colonial rule.--[book jacket] |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 378 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0813930804 9780813930800 |