Revolutionary Negotiations examines early American diplomatic
negotiations with both the European powers and the various American
Indian nations from the 1740s through the 1820s. Sadosky
interweaves previously distinct settings for American diplomacy -
courts and council fires - into one singular, transatlantic system
of politics. Whether states were functioning as provinces in the
British Empire or as independent states, American assertions of
power were directed simultaneously to the west and to the east - to
Native American communities and to European empires across the
Atlantic. American leaders aspired to equality with Europeans, who
often dismissed them, while they were forced to concede agency to
Native Americans, whom they often wished they could ignore. As
Americans used diplomatic negotiation to assert their new nation's
equality with the great powers of Europe and gradually defined
American Indian nations as possessing a different (and lesser) kind
of sovereignty, they were also forced to confront the relations
between the states in their own federal union. Acts of diplomacy
thus defined the founding of America, not only by drawing borders
and facilitating commerce, but also by defining and constraining
sovereign power in a way that privileged some and weakened others.
These negotiations truly were revolutionary.
General
Imprint: |
University of Virginia Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
2010 |
First published: |
2010 |
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
|
Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8139-2864-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
Books >
History >
General
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LSN: |
0-8139-2864-8 |
Barcode: |
9780813928647 |
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