Nation's Nature
| Autor: | James D. Drake |
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| EAN: | 9780813931395 |
| eBook Format: | ePUB |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | eBook |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 05.08.2011 |
| Untertitel: | How Continental Presumptions Gave Rise to the United States of America |
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In one of Common Sense's most ringing phrases,Thomas Paine declared it ",absurd", for ",a continent to be perpetually governed by anisland.", Such powerful words, coupled with powerful ideas, helped spur the United States toindependence.In The Nation's Nature, James D. Drake examineshow a relatively small number of inhabitants of the Americas, huddled along North America'seast coast, came to mentally appropriate the entire continent and to think of their nation asAmerica. Drake demonstrates how British North American colonists' participation in scientificdebates and imperial contests shaped their notions of global geography. These ideas, in turn,solidified American nationalism, spurred a revolution, and shaped the ratification of theConstitution.Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work ofscholarship in eighteenth-century studies
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