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The Genesis of America: Us Foreign Policy and the Formation of National Identity, 1793-1815
Contributor(s): Trautsch, Jasper M. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1108453546     ISBN-13: 9781108453547
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $31.34  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - 19th Century
- Political Science | International Relations - General
Dewey: 327.730
Physical Information: 0.74" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.07 lbs) 328 pages
 
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The Genesis of America investigates the ways in which US foreign policy contributed to the formation of an American national consciousness. Interpreting American nationalism as a process of external demarcation, Jasper M. Trautsch argues that, for a sense of national self to emerge, the US needed to be disentangled from its most important European reference points: Great Britain and France. As he shows, foreign-policy makers could therefore promote American nationalism by provoking foreign crises and wars with these countries, hereby creating external threats that would bind the fragile union together. By reconstructing how foreign policy was thus used as a nation-building instrument, Trautsch provides an answer to the puzzling question of how Americans - lacking a shared history and culture of their own and justifying their claim for independent nationhood by appeals to universal rights - could develop a sense of particularity after the conclusion of the Revolutionary War.
 
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