Key Quote: \u201cThe revolution enables the Unions\u2019 citizens to behind making their history, but the history that they made was often the history that others were willing to let them make\u201d (p.2).<\/p>\n

Key Terms: \u201cModel Treaty,\u201d (1), \u201cStruggle for Dominion over others,\u201d (4), \u201cPeace = Key features of European empires,\u201d (5), \u201cLiberationist events through globalization of power,\u201d (7), \u201centangled nation,\u201d (10)<\/p>\n

In Among the Powers of the Earth, <\/em>Gould centralizes his argument American Revolution is founded on the diplomacy and political views of European Nations. Specifically, that America required a formed nation modeled off of European powers to become recognized and accepted on the globalized geopolitical scale. Further, Gould divides the forming United States into regional neighborhoods. Gould cartographically shows, the Northern Region, the Gulf Region, and its maritime borders required the law of nations to become dominate and effectively show dominion\u2019s interactions with neighbors. Gould points to America creating an \u2018entangled nation\u2019 which describes the mirrored European diplomacy while striving to become a treaty-worthy nation working with others in the trade.<\/p>\n

Gould covers enough time to effectively make his point, by spanning his argument over a seventy-year period. Additionally, it allows Gould to connect our wars (French and Indian War) with European conflicts (Seven Years War), thus furthering his \u2018American models European empire and power\u2019 to solidify our place at the globalizing nations grown-ups table. America using both the Laws of Nature and Nature\u2019s God to separate us from the European powers of the earth and create individual liberty provides us an advantage in furthering dominion\/sovereignty. \u00a0The geographic distance provided distinct opportunity to create a unique space, apart from Europe. I made new connections with the current estate to recent foreign policy affairs. This book assists the reader in discovering that American continues be to challenged with international legalities and how we keep the peace, yet defend out sovereignty we built when the Declaration of Independence replaced the Articles of Confederation.<\/p>\n

While I believe that economic and social advancement and development lenses are equally important within this time frame, the legal angle provides the architecture to which the other lenses connect. Gould creates a strong case for re-evaluation on the collective memory of America’s founding. He argues that field scholars often pay too much attention to the American North (p.8). Missing vital neighborhood’s where our Nation’s new sovereignty and\u00a0liberties, field scholars cannot reclaim and reassert the collective memory of our direct neighborly interactions\u00a0(the Gulf is pertinent\u00a0to illustrate this point as we were protecting the Spanish attempting to further their northern boundaries). Pekka H\u00e4m\u00e4l\u00e4inen gives the Comanche tribe agency; I feel that Gould is seeking to give back America’s agency by redefining how we examine the American Revolution. This is done not only by reviewing the legalities of a new nation but its interactions mirroring its ‘bigger brother’ the European powers, allowing our pursuit of liberty and freedoms \u00a0through developing sovereignty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Key Quote: \u201cThe revolution enables the Unions\u2019 citizens to behind making their history, but the history that they made was often the history that others were willing to let them make\u201d (p.2). Key Terms: \u201cModel Treaty,\u201d (1), \u201cStruggle for Dominion over others,\u201d (4), \u201cPeace = Key features of European empires,\u201d (5), \u201cLiberationist events through globalization […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,21,18,20,19],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-entangled-nation","tag-liberationist-events-through-globalization-of-power","tag-model-treaty","tag-peace-key-features-of-european-empires","tag-struggle-for-dominion-over-others"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist571-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist571-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist571-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist571-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist571-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist571-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist571-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist571-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist571-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist571-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}