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Experiencing empire : power, people, and revolution in early America /
Born of clashing visions of empire in England and the colonies, the American Revolution saw men and women grappling with power-- and its absence--in dynamic ways. On both sides of the revolutionary divide, Americans viewed themselves as an imperial people. This perspective conditioned how they under...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
[2017].
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| Colección: | Early American histories.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : imagining an American imperial-revolutionary history
- part I. Empire and provincials
- The baubles of America : object lessons from the eclectic empire of Peter Williamson / Timothy J. Shannon
- Imperial vineyards : wine and politics in the early American South / Owen Stanwood
- Sex and empire in eighteenth- century St. Louis / Patricia Cleary
- On their own ground : native power and colonial property on the Maine frontier / Ian Saxine
- part II. War, revolution, empires
- Efficient and effective : the deceptive success of British strategy at Fort Stanwix during the Seven Years' War / James Coltrain
- Rethinking failure : the French Empire in the age of John Law / Christopher Hodson
- John Almon's web : networks of print, politics, and place in revolutionary London, 1760-1780 / Michael Guenther
- part III. The ghosts of empire
- Forgiving and forgetting in postrevolutionary America / Donald F. Johnson
- Abbe's ghost : negotiating slavery in Paris, 1783-1784 / David N. Gellman
- Seeing like an antiquarian : popular nostalgia and the rise of a modern historical subjectivity in the 1820s / Seth Cotlar
- Conclusion : what time was the American Revolution? Reflections on a familiar narrative / T.H. Breen
- Afterword / Joyce E. Chaplin.