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The American National State and the Early West challenges the widely held myth that the American national state was weak in the early days of the republic. William H. Bergmann reveals how the federal government used its fiscal and military powers and bureaucratic authority to enhance land acquisitions, promote infrastructure development, and facilitate commerce and communication in the early trans-Appalachian West. Energetic federal state-building efforts prior to 1815 grew from national state security interests as Native Americans and British imperial designs threatened to unravel the republic. Through partnerships with white westerners and western state governments, the federal government encouraged commercial growth and emigration, transforming the borderland into a bordered land. Taking a regional approach, this work synthesizes the literatures of social history, political science, and economic history to provide a new narrative of American expansionism.William H. Bergmann is an assistant professor in the department
The American National State and the Early West challenges the widely held myth that the American national state was weak in the early days of the republic. William H. Bergmann reveals how the federal government used its fiscal and military powers and bureaucratic authority to enhance land acquisitions, promote infrastructure development, and facilitate commerce and communication in the early trans-Appalachian West. Energetic federal state-building efforts prior to 1815 grew from national state security interests as Native Americans and British imperial designs threatened to unravel the republic. Through partnerships with white westerners and western state governments, the federal government encouraged commercial growth and emigration, transforming the borderland into a bordered land. Taking a regional approach, this work synthesizes the literatures of social history, political science, and economic history to provide a new narrative of American expansionism.William H. Bergmann is an assistant professor in the department
Despite the enormous influence of Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities on the study of early American nationalism, there have been few careful assessments of its historical or theoretical arguments. The schema of the "Creole Pioneers" section rests on a conflation of the American Revolution with the Latin American revolutions of a generation later, with a misleading caricature of print culture to the north. Theoretically, Anderson's insights about colonial seriality are drastically exaggerated. A more accurate account of American nationalism can be traced through the nation concept's development in the discourse on Native Americans; ethnographies famously developed a discourse of the nation as Other. The shift to the modern nation concept resulted from practical and conceptual attempts to master Indian nations, in land speculation and in the writing of imperiographies. This conflicted lineage resulted in a revolution committed at times to the nation, at others to the continent.
This study of a dozen American films featuring the American Revolution (released 1939–2002) evaluates the major characters (patriots and loyalists), diverse plots, and various social/class themes. Cinematic and popular culture understandings of the revolution are compared with the interpretations of historians to reveal thematic consistencies, noteworthy variations, and conceptual gulfs between filmmakers and historians. Cette étude portant sur une douzaine de films américains qui touchent la révolution américaine (sortis de 1939 á 2002), analyse les principaux personnages (patriotes et loyalistes), les différentes intrigues et de nombreux thèmes liés aux classes sociales. Les représentations de la révolution américaine dans la culture populaire et la culture cinématographique sont comparées aux interprétations des historiens afin de faire ressortir les points communs, les différences notables et le fossé conceptuel qui existe entre les cinéastes et les historiens.
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