A great and rising nation naval exploration and global empire in the early US Republic
Jeremiah Reynolds and the empire of knowledge -- The United States exploring expedition as Jacksonian capitalism -- The United States exploring expedition in popular culture -- The Dead Sea expedition and the empire of faith -- Proslavery explorations of South America -- Arctic exploration and US-UK...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Chicago ; London
The University of Chicago Press
2022
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| Schriftenreihe: | American beginnings, 1500-1900
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Jeremiah Reynolds and the empire of knowledge -- The United States exploring expedition as Jacksonian capitalism -- The United States exploring expedition in popular culture -- The Dead Sea expedition and the empire of faith -- Proslavery explorations of South America -- Arctic exploration and US-UK rapprochement "In the conventional wisdom, the young United States was weak, with no international posture or military. But as Michael Verney shows, early American naval expeditions, often characterized as merely exploratory, were fundamentally imperialist. These expeditions circled the globe and were backed by a wide range of domestic constituencies, including people who wanted to promote America as an evangelical beacon, a lucrative node in the slave trade, or the base of a conventional empire. Verney shows that early Americans-Hamiltonians and Jeffersonians, militarists and pacifists, abolitionists and slaveholders-all agreed that the country had an interest in showing the world its power"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | vii, 300 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten |
| ISBN: | 9780226819921 978-0-226-81992-1 9780226818382 978-0-226-81838-2 |