Early USA was just another creole-led revolutionary state, sometimes more reactionary.
Evidence
Spanish America offered perfect arguments against both national incomparability and Eurocentrism. It allowed me to think about the early USA, in the Pan-American context, as just another creole-led revolutionary state, and furthermore in some respects more reactionary than its Southern sisters. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 787
Categorization
- SHARE: For any historian of American exceptionalism — the reframing of the US Revolution as one creole-led state among several, and not the most progressive.
- XREF: connects to: Fear of lower-class uprisings drove creole bids for independence — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 216; Creole revolutionaries sought to preserve parallelism, not to overthrow the Old World — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 720
Related
- Creole revolutionaries sought to preserve parallelism, not to overthrow the Old World (similarity 0.88)
- Fear of lower-class uprisings drove creole bids for independence (similarity 0.83)
- Early American nationalisms did not depend on language difference (similarity 0.81)
- Colonial subjects imagined nations before most of Europe did (similarity 0.80)
- Latin American independence was led by landowners, not middle classes (similarity 0.80)
- Multiple comparable early nationalist movements in Spanish America predate Europe’s (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Creole revolutionaries sought to preserve parallelism, not to overthrow the Old World
#exemplifies(0.85) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 720 - Fear of lower-class uprisings drove creole bids for independence
#expands(0.82) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 216