Our Sister Republics: The United States in an Age of American Revolutions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Our Sister Republics: The United States in an Age of American Revolutions write by Caitlin Fitz. This book was released on 2016-07-05. Our Sister Republics: The United States in an Age of American Revolutions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the James H. Broussard First Book Prize PROSE Award in U.S. History (Honorable Mention) A major new interpretation recasts U.S. history between revolution and civil war, exposing a dramatic reversal in sympathy toward Latin American revolutions. In the early nineteenth century, the United States turned its idealistic gaze southward, imagining a legacy of revolution and republicanism it hoped would dominate the American hemisphere. From pulsing port cities to Midwestern farms and southern plantations, an adolescent nation hailed Latin America’s independence movements as glorious tropical reprises of 1776. Even as Latin Americans were gradually ending slavery, U.S. observers remained energized by the belief that their founding ideals were triumphing over European tyranny among their “sister republics.” But as slavery became a violently divisive issue at home, goodwill toward antislavery revolutionaries waned. By the nation’s fiftieth anniversary, republican efforts abroad had become a scaffold upon which many in the United States erected an ideology of white U.S. exceptionalism that would haunt the geopolitical landscape for generations. Marshaling groundbreaking research in four languages, Caitlin Fitz defines this hugely significant, previously unacknowledged turning point in U.S. history.
Spanish Dollars and Sister Republics
Spanish Dollars and Sister Republics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spanish Dollars and Sister Republics write by Tatiana Seijas. This book was released on 2017-02-10. Spanish Dollars and Sister Republics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Spanish Dollars and Sister Republics traces the linked history of the new nations of Mexico and the United States from the 1770s to the 1860s. Tatiana Seijas and Jake Frederick highlight the common challenges facing both countries in their early decades of independence by exploring the creation of coin money. The remarkable story begins when both countries chose the Spanish piece of eight (silver coin) as their monetary standard. The authors examine how each nation instituted its own currency, designed coins to represent its national ideals, and then spent decades trying to establish the legitimacy of its money. Readers learn about the creation and circulation of money through the stories of a banker in Philadelphia, a Mexican general in Texas, a surveyor in Sonora, and others. The focus on individuals provides an engaging window into the economic history of Mexico and the United States. Seijas and Frederick show how the creation of U.S. dollars and Mexican pesos paralleled these countries’ efforts to establish enduring political and economic systems, illustrating why these nations closed the nineteenth century on very different historical trajectories.
The political culture of the sister republics, 1794-1806
The political culture of the sister republics, 1794-1806 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The political culture of the sister republics, 1794-1806 write by Mart Rutjes. This book was released on 2015-05-01. The political culture of the sister republics, 1794-1806 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Experts on the French, Batavian, Helvetic, Cisalpine, and Neapolitan revolutions bridge the gap here between the so-called 'Sister' Republics. They explore political culture as a set of discourses or political practices. Parliamentary practices, the comparability of 'universal' political concepts, late-eighteenth century Republicanism, the relationship between press and politics, and the interaction between the Sister Republics and France are studied from a comparative, transnational perspective.
Sister Republics
Sister Republics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sister Republics write by Patrice L. R. Higonnet. This book was released on 1988. Sister Republics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring the backgrounds of the American and French revolutions, Higonnet finds that dominant American ideology welded together strands of individualist and communitarian thought under an umbrella of virtue, while most Frenchmen, by contrast, were still suspicious of economic individualism. Whereas in America both the rights of the individual and the interests of the community were protected in a pluralistic Federal system, in France these two forces remained at loggerheads. This resulted in politics of consensus in America and generated political conflict in France. ISBN 0-674-80982-3: $27.50.
Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution
Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution write by Edward James Kolla. This book was released on 2017-10-12. Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book argues that the introduction of popular sovereignty as the basis for government in France facilitated a dramatic transformation in international law in the eighteenth century.
