Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America: Documents 80-121: 1836-1846

Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America: Documents 80-121: 1836-1846
Title Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America: Documents 80-121: 1836-1846 PDF eBook
Author United States
Publisher
Pages 888
Release 1931
Genre Electronic journals
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Publications of the Department of State; a Quarterly List

Publications of the Department of State; a Quarterly List
Title Publications of the Department of State; a Quarterly List PDF eBook
Author United States. Department of State
Publisher
Pages 1152
Release 1930
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The United States and the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the Americas, 1776-1867

The United States and the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the Americas, 1776-1867
Title The United States and the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the Americas, 1776-1867 PDF eBook
Author Leonardo Marques
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 368
Release 2016-10-25
Genre History
ISBN 0300224737

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An investigation of US participation in the transatlantic slave trade to the Americas, from the American Revolution to the Civil War While much of modern scholarship has focused on the American slave trade’s impact within the United States, considerably less has addressed its effects in other parts of the Americas. A rich analysis of a complex subject, this study draws on Portuguese, Brazilian, and Spanish primary documents—as well as English-language material—to shed new light on the changing behavior of slave traders and their networks, particularly in Brazil and Cuba. Slavery in these nations, as Marques shows, contributed to the mounting tensions that would ultimately lead to the U.S. Civil War. Taking a truly Atlantic perspective, Marques outlines the multiple forms of U.S. involvement in this traffic amid various legislation and shifting international relations, exploring the global processes that shaped the history of this participation.

The New Middle Kingdom

The New Middle Kingdom
Title The New Middle Kingdom PDF eBook
Author Kendall A. Johnson
Publisher JHU Press
Pages 384
Release 2017-04-25
Genre History
ISBN 1421422522

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Looking at the Far East and American ambition in China through the lens of literature. In the imaginations of early Americans, the Middle Kingdom was the wealthiest empire in the world. Its geographical distance did not deter commercial aspirations—rather, it inspired them. Starting in the late eighteenth century, merchants from New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Salem, Newport, and elsewhere cast speculative lines to China. The resulting fortunes shaped the cultural foundation of the early republic and funded westward frontier expansion. In The New Middle Kingdom, Kendall A. Johnson argues that—for the merchant princes who speculated in the global Far East, as well as the missionaries and diplomats who followed them—Manifest Destiny spurred more than the coalescence of the fractious regions into the continental Far West. It also promised a golden gateway to the Pacific Ocean through which the nation would realize its historical destiny as the world’s new Middle Kingdom of commerce. Examining the influential accounts of westerners at the center of early US cultural development abroad, Johnson conceives a romance of free trade with China as a quest narrative of national accomplishment in a global marketplace. Drawing from a richly descriptive cross-cultural archive, the book presents key moments in early relations among the twenty-first century’s superpowers through memoirs, biographies, epistolary journals, magazines, book reviews, fiction and poetry by Melville, Twain, Whitman, and others, travel narratives, and treaties, as well as maps and engraved illustrations. Paying close attention to figurative language, generic forms, and the social dynamics of print cultural production and circulation, Johnson shows how authors, editors, and printers appealed to multiple overlapping audiences in China, in the United States, and throughout the world. Spanning a full century, from the post–Revolutionary War era to the Gilded Age, The New Middle Kingdom is a vivid look at the Far East through Western eyes, one that highlights the importance of China in antebellum US culture.

Register of the Department of State

Register of the Department of State
Title Register of the Department of State PDF eBook
Author United States. Dept. of State
Publisher
Pages 778
Release 1935
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Biographic Register of the Department of State

Biographic Register of the Department of State
Title Biographic Register of the Department of State PDF eBook
Author United States. Department of State
Publisher
Pages 398
Release 1924
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Foreign Service List

Foreign Service List
Title Foreign Service List PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 1664
Release 1936
Genre Diplomatic and consular service, American
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Includes field staffs of Foreign Service, U.S. missions to international organizations, Agency for International Development, ACTION, U.S. Information Agency, Peace Corps, Foreign Agricultural Service, and Department of Army, Navy and Air Force