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ISBN:
9781108635301
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in US foreign relations
Content:
The Genesis of America investigates the ways in which US foreign policy contributed to the formation of an American national consciousness. Interpreting American nationalism as a process of external demarcation, Jasper M. Trautsch argues that, for a sense of national self to emerge, the US needed to be disentangled from its most important European reference points: Great Britain and France. As he shows, foreign-policy makers could therefore promote American nationalism by provoking foreign crises and wars with these countries, hereby creating external threats that would bind the fragile union together. By reconstructing how foreign policy was thus used as a nation-building instrument, Trautsch provides an answer to the puzzling question of how Americans - lacking a shared history and culture of their own and justifying their claim for independent nationhood by appeals to universal rights - could develop a sense of particularity after the conclusion of the Revolutionary War
Content:
Political Ideologies and American Identity in the Era of the French Revolution -- Foreign Policies of Unneutrality and the Jay Treaty -- Federalists and the Origins of the Quasi-War -- Disentangling America from France -- Republicans and the Origins of the War of 1812 -- Disentangling America from Great Britain
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Aug 2018)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108428248
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108453547
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Trautsch, Jasper The genesis of America Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2018 ISBN 9781108428248
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
USA
;
Nationalbewusstsein
;
Innenpolitik
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Geschichte 1793-1815
DOI:
10.1017/9781108635301
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