An independent state encircled in the American Union. Ambition et ambiguïté du Kentucky post-révolutionnaire

This paper analyses the early history of Kentucky as well as the language of the first systematically written history of the state (1812) in the context of nation-building. At the outcome of the Revolutionary War, the Transappalachian West did not belong securely to the United States. Its integratio...

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מחבר ראשי: Tran, Juliette
פורמט: Article ou chapitre numérique
שפה:Français
יצא לאור: 2022
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גישה מקוונת:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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סיכום:This paper analyses the early history of Kentucky as well as the language of the first systematically written history of the state (1812) in the context of nation-building. At the outcome of the Revolutionary War, the Transappalachian West did not belong securely to the United States. Its integration was threatened by separatist sentiment and conspiracies. In dealing with these problems, the Federalist historian Humphrey Marshall participated in constructing early U.S. nationalism.