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Citizens of Convenience : The Imperial Origins of American Nationhood on the U.S.-Canadian Border /
Like merchant ships flying flags of convenience to navigate foreign waters, traders in the northern borderlands of the early American republic exploited loopholes in the Jay Treaty that allowed them to avoid border regulations by constantly shifting between British and American nationality. In Citiz...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2016
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| Colección: | Early American histories.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- 1. "You damn Yankee what brought you here?"
- 2. "It shall at all times be free to his majesty's subjects"
- 3. "To guard the national interest against the machinations of its enemies"
- 4. "The equivocal attributes of American citizen and British subject"
- 5. "We ought to have the trade within our awen country"
- 6. "When the American stripes alone protect the Western Hemisphere"
- 7. "British subjects are always black sheep"
- Epilogue : "the gallant champions of British influence."