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Serpent in Eden: Foreign Meddling and Partisan Politics in James Madison's America de Tyson Reeder

Serpent in Eden: Foreign Meddling and Partisan Politics in James Madison's America

Autor Tyson Reeder
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 noi 2024

În cadrul studiilor dedicate istoriei timpurii a Statelor Unite și evoluției sistemelor democratice, volumul Serpent in Eden propune o analiză riguroasă a vulnerabilităților noului stat în fața influențelor externe. Găsim în această lucrare publicată de Oxford University Press o examinare a modului în care „uneltirile” străine nu au fost doar presiuni diplomatice, ci elemente care au penetrat profund țesutul politic intern, exploatând diviziunile dintre facțiuni. Reținem perspectiva autorului Tyson Reeder asupra perioadei formative dintre Revoluție și Războiul din 1812, o epocă marcată de spionaj și diplomație din umbră.

Subliniem portretul complex al lui James Madison, figură centrală a cărții, surprins în ipostaze contradictorii: arhitect al Constituției și, simultan, strateg partizan. Cititorii familiarizați cu The Three Lives of James Madison de Noah Feldman vor aprecia modul în care Tyson Reeder deplasează accentul de la biografia politică clasică spre mecanismele specifice de coluziune și interferență electorală. Dacă lucrările anterioare ale autorului, precum Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots – Free Trade in the Age of Revolution, explorau influența actorilor non-statali asupra independenței, acest nou titlu aprofundează dinamica dintre marile puteri (Marea Britanie și Franța) și fragilitatea instituțiilor americane aflate la început de drum.

Stilul este unul analitic, ancorat în date istorice, dar alert prin natura subiectelor abordate: trădări, acuzații de coluziune și impactul mass-media emergente asupra opiniei publice. Cele 43 de ilustrații și hărțile incluse oferă un suport vizual necesar pentru a înțelege contextul geopolitic tensionat care a precedat Războiul din 1812. Cartea demonstrează cum polarizarea internă a servit drept poartă de intrare pentru interesele externe, o temă cu o relevanță istorică incontestabilă.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197628591
ISBN-10: 0197628591
Pagini: 424
Ilustrații: 43 b/w illustrations, 3 maps
Dimensiuni: 157 x 224 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.77 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte istoricilor și studenților la științe politice care doresc să înțeleagă rădăcinile polarizării politice americane. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă nuanțată asupra modului în care imixtiunile externe au modelat primele decenii ale republicii. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege de ce sistemul constituțional gândit de James Madison rămâne, până astăzi, o structură aflată sub presiunea constantă a conflictelor partizane și a influențelor străine.

Despre autor

Tyson Reeder este un istoric specializat în relațiile externe ale Statelor Unite și în epoca revoluționară. Experiența sa academică este consolidată de lucrări de referință precum The Routledge History of U.S. Foreign Relations, unde a coordonat contribuții despre diplomația americană de la fondare până în prezent. În cercetările sale, Reeder se concentrează pe intersecția dintre comerț, politică și conflicte internaționale, analizând modul în care actori diverși — de la comercianți și pirați la diplomați — au influențat suveranitatea națională. Această expertiză îi permite să abordeze figura lui James Madison nu doar ca teoretician, ci ca lider pragmatic într-o lume marcată de instabilitate globală.

Descriere

A story of espionage, shadow diplomacy, foreign scheming, and domestic backstabbing in the formative years of the American republic. Tyson Reeder's book traces early America's rocky beginnings, when foreign interference and political conflict threatened to undermine its aspirations and ideals, even its very existence. Spanning the period from the Revolution to the War of 1812, and focusing particularly on the presidency of James Madison, it reveals a nation adjusting to rancorous partisan politics, aggravated by the untested and imperfect new tools of governance and the growing power of media. Foreign powers, mainly Great Britain and Napoleonic France, exploited these conditions to advance their own agendas, interfering in U.S. elections to promote the outcome they favored. Dissent and disloyalty became dangerously interdigitated, nearly bringing the new republic to the brink of collapse.No figure was more in the center of it all than James Madison. As a leading delegate at the Constitutional Convention, Republican congressional leader, secretary of state, and president, Madison grappled with foreign meddling for over three decades. At the same time, he emerged as a political leader, feeding the very partisanship that bred foreign intrigues. As chief executive, he presided over the calamitous barrage of accusations and counteraccusations of foreign collusion that culminated in the War of 1812. Madison left a mixed but indelible legacy: as a fierce adversary of foreign interference, a fiery champion of political debate, and a partisan operative who facilitated the former by inflaming the latter.Forged in partisan conflict, the United States remains vulnerable to forces that test whether the constitutional system Madison was so central in implementing can withstand outside meddling while accommodating partisan conflict. Madison's successes and failures, along with his original vision of the Constitution and party politics, illuminate the ongoing struggle between domestic polarization and foreign interference.

Recenzii

In Serpent in Eden, Tyson Reeder vividly depicts an early American republic obsessed with fears of collapse through foreign meddling. Bitterly divided, the republic's leaders often invited the very manipulation that they dreaded. Deeply researched and beautifully written, Serpent in Eden offers the best account of the interplay of diplomacy and politics in our nation's origins. That story offers a lively yet sobering reflection for our own consideration.
The high-stakes drama of political and international conflict crackles on every page of this thrilling, thoroughly researched, and sharply rendered book. With superb storytelling panache, Reeder reveals the Founders' fears of foreign interference on the new United States, which animated partisan politics and became self-fulfilling prophecies. By focusing on foreign intrigue in James Madison's democratic republic, Reeder gets to the heart of fundamental debates about American ideals, as well as its real vulnerabilities.
In Serpent in Eden, Tyson Reeder demonstrates that the United States has occupied a contentious place in the midst of a messy international community from the very beginning. European powers exploited internal partisan divisions in pursuit of their own imperial aims, while politicians welcomed foreign interference on their behalf and decried similar attempts by their opponents. Reeder offers a highly-accessible, shockingly relevant story of Early America that reminds us that while history doesn't repeat, it often rhymes.
Serpent in Eden is political history at its best, with gripping stories of politics and intrigue that illuminate the shaky position of the early United States, internally divided and facing strong European empires and independent Native nations.
Serpent in Eden is a delightfully written look at foreign involvement in America in the early days of the Republic. Domestic politics, diplomacy, and economics were inextricably linked from the earliest days of our country, as they remain today. The notion that "politics ends at the water's edge" was true of only the briefest period of our history. Students of both history and diplomacy will learn much from this engaging book.
Tyson Reeder shows us that foreign meddling in American politics goes back to the founding of the republic. Featuring a colorful international cast of characters, including spies, diplomats, and politicians, with James Madison at its center, Serpent in Eden offers an important new perspective on the American founding with verve and style.
In this beautifully written book, Tyson Reeder has put his finger on a critical but overlooked aspect of America's early years of independence. He reveals the complex intrigues, traumas, and tensions inherent in securing unity for a new nation and building a state in an age of profound uncertainty, conflict, and ongoing revolution. It is a splendid addition to a dynamic field.
Serpent in the Garden brings to life a surprisingly neglected aspect of the United States' early history: the repeated attempts by European spies and diplomats to bend the new republic to their will. Blending the story of James Madison, the book's central figure, with a host of colorful characters, Tyson Reeder shows how foreign intrigue brought the union to the brink of collapse, culminating during the War of 1812 in the capture of the nation's capital and the burning of the White House by British soldiers. This is a book whose lessons are as relevant today as they were two hundred years ago.
An excellent summary of a complex and important period that is too much overlooked by historians of American diplomacy.
Serpent in Eden recounts the volatile political atmosphere in the US between independence and the conclusion of the War of 1812...His research is exhaustive and impeccable, as one might expect given his former role as an editor of the Papers of James Madison. Fortunately, the book is also quite well written. With Madison as the focal point, readers see both his brilliance and his limitations as a leader. Students of the early republic will find this book engaging and enriching.
an excellent, provocative book.

Notă biografică

Tyson Reeder teaches history at Brigham Young University and taught previously at the University of Virginia, where he was an editor of the Papers of James Madison. He is the author of Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots: Free Trade in the Age of Revolution (2019) and editor of the Routledge History of U.S. Foreign Relations (2021), in addition to numerous articles and book chapters.