1st Edition
Race and U.S. Foreign Policy from Colonial Times Through the Age of Jackson
Edited By E. Nathaniel Gates
Copyright 1998
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1998. Explores the concept of race - The term race, which originally denoted genealogical or class identity, has in the comparatively brief span of 300 years taken on an entirely new meaning. In the wake of the Enlightenment it came to be applied to social groups. This ideological transformation coupled with a dogmatic insistence that the groups so designated were natural, and... Read more
Volume Introduction, Racial Problems and American Foreign Policy, The Study of Race in American Foreign Policy and International Relations, The Hierarchy of Race, Liberty and the Anglo-Saxons, Puritans, Indians, and the Concept of Race; The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating, Red, White, and Black: The Origins of Racism in Colonial America, The Metaphysics of Empire-Building: American Imperialism in the Age of Jefferson and Monroe, The American Trader's Image of China, 1785-1840,Found Cumbering the Soil: Manifest Destiny and the Indian in the Nineteenth Century, Domestic Factors II: Racial and Ethnic Influences, Continentalism and the Color, The Foreign Policy of Antislavery, 1833-1846.
Biography
E. Nathaniel Gates
