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• Comprehensive study of the historiography of American foreign
relations with an eye on surveying the discipline • Covers the
entire course of the history of US foreign relations from the
founding of the Republic until beginning of the 21st century •
Broad regional and thematic scope will give it international appeal
* Comprehensive study of the historiography of American foreign
relations with an eye on surveying the discipline * Covers the
entire course of the history of US foreign relations from the
founding of the Republic until beginning of the 21st century *
Broad regional and thematic scope will give it international appeal
After emerging victorious from their revolution against the British
Empire, many North Americans associated commercial freedom with
independence and republicanism. Optimistic about the liberation
movements sweeping Latin America, they were particularly eager to
disrupt the Portuguese Empire. Anticipating the establishment of a
Brazilian republic that they assumed would give them commercial
preference, they aimed to aid Brazilian independence through
contraband, plunder, and revolution. In contrast to the British
Empire's reaction to the American Revolution, Lisbon officials
liberalized imperial trade when revolutionary fervor threatened the
Portuguese Empire in the 1780s and 1790s. In 1808, to save the
empire from Napoleon's army, the Portuguese court relocated to Rio
de Janeiro and opened Brazilian ports to foreign commerce. By 1822,
the year Brazil declared independence, it had become the undisputed
center of U.S. trade with the Portuguese Empire. However, by that
point, Brazilians tended to associate freer trade with the
consolidation of monarchical power and imperial strength, and, by
the end of the 1820s, it was clear that Brazilians would retain a
monarchy despite their independence. Smugglers, Pirates, and
Patriots delineates the differences between the British and
Portuguese empires as they struggled with revolutionary tumult. It
reveals how those differences led to turbulent transnational
exchanges between the United States and Brazil as merchants,
smugglers, rogue officials, slave traders, and pirates sought to
trade outside legal confines. Tyson Reeder argues that although
U.S. traders had forged their commerce with Brazil convinced that
they could secure republican trade partners there, they were
instead forced to reconcile their vision of the Americas as a haven
for republics with the reality of a monarchy residing in the
hemisphere. He shows that as twilight fell on the Age of
Revolution, Brazil and the United States became fellow slave powers
rather than fellow republics.
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