This type of diplomacy-balancing the local with the transnational-helped to define the American people as a distinct nation within the Revolutionary Atlantic world and stake out the United States' imperial domain in North America. customs and territorial officials had to tailor policies to local needs while delineating and validating membership in the national community. To establish authority over both its own nationals and an array of non-nationals within its borders, U.S. citizens from British subjects on the border posed a significant challenge to the United States' founding claim that it formed a separate and unique nation.
Hatter explains how the difficulty of distinguishing U.S. policymakers.The U.S.-Canadian border was a critical site of United States nation- and empire-building during the first forty years of the republic. In Citizens of Convenience, Lawrence Hatter shows how this practice undermined the United States' claim to nationhood and threatened the transcontinental imperial aspirations of U.S. “Like merchant ships flying flags of convenience to navigate foreign waters, traders in the northern borderlands of the early American republic exploited loopholes in the Jay Treaty that allowed them to avoid border regulations by constantly shifting between British and American nationality. Continuing our fall trend of traveling the 18 th century North American fur trade routes, Washington State University Assistant Professor of History Lawrence B.A.
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