Charles Bright and Michael Geyer
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520230576
- eISBN:
- 9780520936034
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520230576.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter speculates the global context and tries to locate the history of the United States within it. It explains that one should be careful not to absorb national history into global history, ...
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This chapter speculates the global context and tries to locate the history of the United States within it. It explains that one should be careful not to absorb national history into global history, which is not universal, totalizing, and complete. The discussion focuses on three historical organizations of American sovereignty. It studies the centrality of the production of a sovereign territory during the nineteenth century, the partial deterritorialization of civil society since the Second World War, and the extension of production territory in the industrial area.Less
This chapter speculates the global context and tries to locate the history of the United States within it. It explains that one should be careful not to absorb national history into global history, which is not universal, totalizing, and complete. The discussion focuses on three historical organizations of American sovereignty. It studies the centrality of the production of a sovereign territory during the nineteenth century, the partial deterritorialization of civil society since the Second World War, and the extension of production territory in the industrial area.
Carla J. Mulford
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- June 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199384198
- eISBN:
- 9780199384211
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199384198.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 18th Century and Early American Literature
This chapter treats the years of the Revolution against Great Britain and Franklin’s diplomacy in France. Although he was advanced in age and facing uncertain health, Franklin worked tirelessly to ...
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This chapter treats the years of the Revolution against Great Britain and Franklin’s diplomacy in France. Although he was advanced in age and facing uncertain health, Franklin worked tirelessly to secure the Revolution. He became a much-consulted strategist for many of the decisions made by Congress. Highlights of Franklin’s activities include his propaganda writing; his work in Congress, especially serving the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence; his crucial role in diplomatic relations between France and British North America during and after the American Revolution; and his work to secure the Peace of Paris of 1783. As part of the treaty negotiations, Franklin was seeking reparations for Americans whose property was destroyed during the war. He was also working hard to assist Americans taken prisoner of war and held—in deplorable conditions—in prisons in Britain.Less
This chapter treats the years of the Revolution against Great Britain and Franklin’s diplomacy in France. Although he was advanced in age and facing uncertain health, Franklin worked tirelessly to secure the Revolution. He became a much-consulted strategist for many of the decisions made by Congress. Highlights of Franklin’s activities include his propaganda writing; his work in Congress, especially serving the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence; his crucial role in diplomatic relations between France and British North America during and after the American Revolution; and his work to secure the Peace of Paris of 1783. As part of the treaty negotiations, Franklin was seeking reparations for Americans whose property was destroyed during the war. He was also working hard to assist Americans taken prisoner of war and held—in deplorable conditions—in prisons in Britain.
Federal Writers Project of the Works Project Administration
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520268838
- eISBN:
- 9780520948860
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520268838.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This book returns to print an invaluable document of Depression-era Los Angeles, illuminating a pivotal moment in L.A.'s history, when writers like Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, and F. Scott ...
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This book returns to print an invaluable document of Depression-era Los Angeles, illuminating a pivotal moment in L.A.'s history, when writers like Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were creating the images and associations—and the mystique—for which the City of Angels is still known. Many books in one, this title is both a genial guide and an addictively readable history, revisiting the Spanish colonial period, the Mexican period, the brief California Republic, and finally American sovereignty. These whose haunting visions suggest the city we know today and illuminate the booms and busts that marked L.A. 's past and continue to shape its future.Less
This book returns to print an invaluable document of Depression-era Los Angeles, illuminating a pivotal moment in L.A.'s history, when writers like Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were creating the images and associations—and the mystique—for which the City of Angels is still known. Many books in one, this title is both a genial guide and an addictively readable history, revisiting the Spanish colonial period, the Mexican period, the brief California Republic, and finally American sovereignty. These whose haunting visions suggest the city we know today and illuminate the booms and busts that marked L.A. 's past and continue to shape its future.
