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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Hatter, Lawrence B. A.
Titre(s) : Citizens of convenience [Texte imprimé] : the imperial origins of American nationhood on the U.S.-Canadian border / Lawrence B. A. Hatter
Publication : Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xi, 267 pages) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Collection : Early American histories
Lien à la collection : Early American histories (Charlottesville)
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-257) and index. - "Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship
in eighteenth-century studies."
"Like merchant ships flying flags of convenience to navigate foreign waters, traders
in the northern borderlands of the early American republic exploited loopholes in
the Jay Treaty that allowed them to avoid border regulations by constantly shifting
between British and American nationality. In Citizens of Convenience, Lawrence Hatter
shows how this practice undermined the United States' claim to nationhood and threatened
the transcontinental imperial aspirations of U.S. policymakers. The U.S.-Canadian
border was a critical site of United States nation- and empire-building during the
first forty years of the republic. Hatter explains how the difficulty of distinguishing
U.S. citizens from British subjects on the border posed a significant challenge to
the United States' founding claim that it formed a separate and unique nation. To
establish authority over both its own nationals and an array of non-nationals within
its borders, U.S. customs and territorial officials had to tailor policies to local
needs while delineating and validating membership in the national community. This
type of diplomacy--balancing the local with the transnational--helped to define the
American people as a distinct nation within the Revolutionary Atlantic world and stake
out the United States' imperial domain in North America"--Publisher description
Sujet(s) : Citoyenneté -- Région frontalière canado-américaine -- Histoire
Caractère national américain -- Histoire
Impérialisme -- États-Unis -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
973 (23e éd.) = Histoire - États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780813939544. - ISBN 0813939542. - ISBN 9780813939551 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46629056j
Notice n° :
FRBNF46629056
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : "You damn Yankee what brought you here?" ; "It shall at all times be free to His
Majesty's subjects" ; "To guard the national interest against the machinations of
its enemies" ; "The equivocal attributes of American citizen and British subject"
; "We ought to have the trade within our awen country" ; "When the American stripes
alone protect the Western Hemisphere" ; "British subjects are always black sheep"
; Epilogue: "The gallant champions of British influence."
