A great and rising nation naval exploration and global empire in the early US Republic
"In the conventional wisdom, the young United States was weak, with no international posture or military. But as Michael Verney shows, early American naval expeditions, often characterized as merely exploratory, were fundamentally imperialist. These expeditions circled the globe and were backed...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press
[2022]
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| Colección: | American beginnings, 1500-1900
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Jeremiah Reynolds and the empire of knowledge
- The United States exploring expedition as Jacksonian capitalism
- The United States exploring expedition in popular culture
- The Dead Sea expedition and the empire of faith
- Proslavery explorations of South America
- Arctic exploration and US-UK rapprochement.
