LEADER 03823nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910823187003321 005 20240416154041.0 010 $a0-674-06502-6 010 $a0-674-06826-2 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674065024 035 $a(CKB)2560000000082490 035 $a(OCoLC)794427992 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10568005 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000654315 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11405734 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000654315 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10661973 035 $a(PQKB)11712114 035 $a(DE-B1597)178171 035 $a(OCoLC)1024051793 035 $a(OCoLC)1037969074 035 $a(OCoLC)1041921832 035 $a(OCoLC)1046610201 035 $a(OCoLC)1047014493 035 $a(OCoLC)1049687275 035 $a(OCoLC)1054864365 035 $a(OCoLC)979904473 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674065024 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301062 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10568005 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301062 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000082490 100 $a20110901d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAmong the powers of the earth $ethe American Revolution and the making of a new world empire /$fEliga H. Gould 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource $cillustrations, maps 311 $a0-674-04608-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tMAPS --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. On the Margins of Europe --$tChapter 2. The Law of Slavery --$tChapter 3. Pax Britannica --$tChapter 4. Independence --$tChapter 5. A Slaveholding Republic --$tChapter 6. The New World and the Old --$tEpilogue --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aFor most Americans, the Revolution's main achievement is summed up by the phrase "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Yet far from a straightforward attempt to be free of Old World laws and customs, the American founding was also a bid for inclusion in the community of nations as it existed in 1776. America aspired to diplomatic recognition under international law and the authority to become a colonizing power itself. As Eliga Gould shows in this reappraisal of American history, the Revolution was an international transformation of the first importance. To conform to the public law of Europe's imperial powers, Americans crafted a union nearly as centralized as the one they had overthrown, endured taxes heavier than any they had faced as British colonists, and remained entangled with European Atlantic empires long after the Revolution ended. No factor weighed more heavily on Americans than the legally plural Atlantic where they hoped to build their empire. Gould follows the region's transfiguration from a fluid periphery with its own rules and norms to a place where people of all descriptions were expected to abide by the laws of Western Europe-"civilized" laws that precluded neither slavery nor the dispossession of Native Americans. 606 $aInternational relations$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1775-1783 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1783-1815 607 $aUnited States$xInternational status$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783$xInfluence 607 $aUnited States$xTerritorial expansion 615 0$aInternational relations 676 $a973.3/2 700 $aGould$b Eliga H$01628289 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823187003321 996 $aAmong the powers of the earth$93965327 997 $aUNINA