Gabriele (Hrsg.) Pisarz-Ramirez

Hemispheric Encounters

ISBN: 978-3-653-04646-5
EAN: 9783653046465
Produktnummer: 25678687
Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 0 S.
Plattform: PDF

The Early United States in a Transnational Perspective

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In the decades following the American Revolution, literary and cultural discourses, but also American collective and individual identification were shaped by transatlantic relations and inter-American exchanges and conflicts. The way Americans defined themselves as a nation and as individuals was shaped by such historical events and social issues as the Haitian Revolution, the struggles for independence in Spanish America, ties with Caribbean slave economies, and rivalries with other colonial powers in the Americas. Contextualizing transatlantic and inter-American relations within a framework of the Western Hemisphere, the essays collected in… Mehr