The significance of the "global turn" for the early American Republic: Globalization in the age of nation-building

Journal of the Early Republic

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-37

  Zagarri, Rosemarie ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; American empire; American exceptionalism; Anglo Indian children; Ann Hasseltine Judson; Atlantic history; British East India Company; Free produce; Global history; Harriet Atwood Newell; India cotton; India sugar; India textiles; Johann Frederick Blumenbach; Nabobs; Racial ideology in colonial India (18th century); Racial ideology in colonial India (19th century); Racial ideology in the U.S. (18th century); Racial ideology in the U.S.(19th century); Slavery in India; Thomas Law; U.S. as a postcolonial nation; U.S. India trade (18th century); U.S. India trade (19th century); Women missionaries in India

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952344348     PISSN: 02751275     EISSN: 15530620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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