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Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire

By Eliga H. Gould

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
0674046080, 9780674046085
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4415833 bytes)
Edition
Sew
Pages
344\343
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-07-30 20:53:32
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Description

SHEAR Book Prize (2013), Society for Historians of the Early American RepublicGeorge Washington Book Prize Finalist (2013)A Library Journal Best Book of 2012 What does it mean to be a treaty-worthy nation?  No question mattered more to Americans in 1776.  As Eliga Gould shows in this prize-winning book, the need for international recognition touched every part of the United States' early history -- from the drafting of the Constitution, to relations between settlers and Indians, to the looming debate over slavery.

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