Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire
Book Details
Author(s)Eliga H. Gould
PublisherHarvard University Press
ISBN / ASIN0674046080
ISBN-139780674046085
CategoryHistory
MarketplaceIndia 🇮🇳
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.
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