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02884aam a2200385 a 4500 001 1BE7FB5EAED411E1BB28B5CE6AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20190228010452 008 110901s2012 mauabf b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2011035333 020 $a 0674046080 (alk. paper) 020 $a 9780674046085 (alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)748941753 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d SILO $d BTCTA $d UKMGB $d YDXCP $d BDX $d RCJ $d GVA $d BWX $d COO $d YUS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E249 $b .G68 2012 082 00 $a 973.3/2 $2 23 100 1 $a Gould, Eliga H. 245 1 $a Among the powers of the earth : $b the American Revolution and the making of a new world empire / $c Eliga H. Gould. 260 $a Cambridge, Mass. : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2012. 300 $a 301 p., [22] p. of plates : $b ill., maps ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: a nation among nations -- On the margins of Europe -- The law of slavery -- Pax Britannica -- Independence -- A slaveholding republic -- The new world and the old -- Epilogue: Mr. Monroe's peace. 520 $a "For 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. 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."--Book jacket. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $y 1775-1783. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $y 1783-1815. 651 0 $a United States $x History. $x History. 651 0 $a United States $x Influence. $y Revolution, 1775-1783 $x Influence. 651 0 $a United States $x Territorial expansion. 941 $a 3 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20240724070829.0 952 $l OZAX845 $d 20240525040837.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826033139.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1BE7FB5EAED411E1BB28B5CE6AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search