{"product_id":"eastward-of-good-hope-early-america-in-a-dangerous-world-hardcover","title":"Eastward of Good Hope: Early America in a Dangerous World - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDane A. Morrison\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eHow did news from the East--carried in ship logs and mariners' reports, journals, and correspondence--shape early Americans' understanding of the world as a map of dangerous and incoherent sites?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFreed from restrictions of British mercantilism in the years following the War of Independence, Yankee merchants embarked on numerous voyages of commerce and discovery into distant seas. Through the news from the East, carried in mariners' reports, ship logs, journals, and correspondence, Americans at home imagined the world as a map of dangerous and deranged places. This was a world that was profoundly disordered, hobbled by tyranny and oppression or steeped in chaos and anarchy, often deadly, always uncertain, unpredictable, and unstable, yet amenable to American influence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on four representative arenas--the Ottoman Empire, China, India, and the Great South Sea (collectively, the East Indies, Oceana, and the American continent's Northwest coast)--\u003ci\u003eEastward of Good Hope \u003c\/i\u003erecasts the relationship between America and the world by examining the early years of the republic, when its national character was particularly pliable and its foundational posture in the world was forming. Drawing on recent scholarship in global ethnohistory, Dane A. Morrison recounts how reports of cannibal encounters, shipboard massacres, shipwrecks, tropical fever, and other tragedies in distant seas led Americans to imagine each region as a distinct set of threats to their republic. He also demonstrates how the concept of justification through self-doubt allowed for aggressive expansionism and for the foundations of imperialism to develop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMorrison reconsiders American ideas about the world through three questions: How did British Americans imagine the world before independence allowed them to travel Eastward of Good Hope? What were the signal encounters that filled the public sphere in their early years of global encounter? And finally, how did Americans' contacts with other peoples inflect their ideas about the world and their place in it? Written in a lively, engaging style, \u003ci\u003eEastward of Good Hope\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to scholars and the general public alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDane A. Morrison\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of early American history at Salem State University. He is the author of\u003ci\u003e True Yankees: The South Seas and the Discovery of American Identity\u003c\/i\u003e and the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eSalem: Place, Myth, and Memory\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.15 x 10.14 x 5.34 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52987849474355,"sku":"9781421442365","price":106.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/ypR_a8iHpg9781421442365.webp?v=1769072284","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/eastward-of-good-hope-early-america-in-a-dangerous-world-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}