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标题：Situating Early America’s Identities in the Atlantic World
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作者：Benjamin E. Park
期刊名称：49th Parallel
电子版ISSN：1753-5794
出版年度：2014
期号：34
页码：78
出版社：Department of American & Canadian Studies
摘要：'We are all Atlanticists now', David Armitage declared—likely tongue-in-cheek—in 2002. 1 If such a statement seemed a bit exaggerated at the time, it seems only commonplace a decade later. The amount of scholarship that has appeared in the last few years that utilises a theoretical model of Atlantic history and establishes Atlanticism as its grounding framework demonstrates the fruition of the so-called 'Atlantic turn' in US historiography. What was once a trendy—if still peripheral—topic in the academy is now commonplace, and drives the American publishing and job market to an extent that likely surprises those who plead for the methodological adjustment. 2 This is especially the case for early American history, particularly during the period that immediately follows the American Revolution, commonly referred to as the early republic, and the political cultures and nationalisms produced therein. W. M. Verhoeven's proclamation in 2002 that 'the many revolutions that produced the national ideologies, identities, and ideas of state of present-day American and Europe' were shaped by a 'trialogue (between France and Britain and America)'—a statement designed to drive a radically new methodological model—now seems pedestrian, if not an understatement.