Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire
Book Details
Author(s)
Eliga H. Gould
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN / ASIN
0674046080
ISBN-13
9780674046085
Category
History
Marketplace
France 🇫🇷
Description
SHEAR Book Prize (2013), Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
George 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.
George 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.
