Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2013
Abstract
One of the challenges of reviewing Eliga Gould’s international history of the American Revolution, Among the Powers of the Earth, is that the book makes you feel like you’re looking at history through a 360-degree lens. A legal, diplomatic, and intellectual history spanning from the mid-18th century to the declaration of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823, the book situates the Revolution in the context of the evolving law of nations in a strikingly rich and detailed account. Everything, it seems, is in there.
Disciplines
Law | Legal History
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Recommended Citation
Christina Duffy Ponsa, Empire Before Nationhood, JOTWELL (September 20, 2013) (reviewing Eliga H. Gould, Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire (Harvard Univ. Press 2012)), https://legalhist.jotwell.com/empire-before-nationhood/.
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Comments
Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire by Eliga H. Gould, Harvard University Press, 2012.