Charles Gravier Vergennes, comte de
Charles Gravier Vergennes, comte de , 1717-87, French statesman. After serving as ambassador at Trier, Constantinople, and Stockholm (where in 1772 he participated in the coup of Gustavus III), he was made (1774) foreign minister by Louis XVI. He supported the American Revolution, at first secretly through Pierre de Beaumarchais , then officially after signing, with Benjamin Franklin, the alliance of Feb. 6, 1778. Vergennes was the chief French representative at the peace negotiations between Great Britain and the United States, France, and Spain at the close of the American Revolution (see Paris, Treaty of , 1783). He also assisted in negotiating the Treaty of Teschen (1779) between Austria and Prussia at the close of the War of the Bavarian Succession.
Bibliography: See J. J. Meng, The Comte de Vergennes (1932).
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"An unprecedented influx": Nativism and Irish Famine Immigration to Canada.
Magazine article from: American Review of Canadian Studies; 12/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...2] The first clear episode of nativism--the emphatic rejection of immigrants...the Canadian experience coincided with nativism in the United States, a more widely...political-party formation. Canada's nativism may even have matched America's in...
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WHAT'S WITHIN? NATIVISM RECONSIDERED.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Philosophical Review; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; WHAT'S WITHIN? NATIVISM RECONSIDERED. By FIONA COWIE. New...rationalist-empiricist debate over nativism, isolating what she considers the...concepts is continuous with traditional nativism in that it precludes a naturalistic...
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Black republican tradition, nativism and populist politics in South Africa.
Magazine article from: Transformation; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...decolonisation, we encounter rhetorics in which 'nativism' in one form or another is evident...My key argument is that dismissing nativism as fake philosophy and as anti-racist...phenomenon. Parry (1994:77) noted that nativism is a reverse discourse with its own agency...
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The new nativism.(Forward Observer: Politics meets economics)
Magazine article from: The American Enterprise; 5/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...strong. All are examples of the New Nativism, a reaction to globalization that shuts...each of whom had begun life anew," nativism has flared off and on since the Alien...revived nativist sentiment briefly. Now nativism is back. Why? In her 1998 book, The...
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Nativism in America: Yesterday and Today
Newspaper article from: La Prensa San Diego; 5/30/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...racial stereotypes, evoke the term nativism, a peculiarly American phenomenon with a long, sordid history. "Nativism as a habit of mind illuminates darkly...radicals who criticized the government. Nativism struck again in the early 1800s with...
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Face the nation: Race, immigration, and the rise of nativism in late twentieth century America
Magazine article from: The International Migration Review; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Race, Immigration, and the Rise of Nativism in Late Twentieth Century America1 This article examines the rise of nativism directed at Asian and Latino immigrants...this study reveals that a racial nativism has arisen which intertwines a new...
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Nativism and immigration; regulating the American dream.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2007; 465 words
; 1593321937 Nativism and immigration; regulating the American...boundaries, meanings and effects of nativism in America, beginning by tracking the...sometimes conflicting definitions of nativism by scholars and policy-makers. He...
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Immigrants Out!: The New Nativism and the Anti-Immigrant Impulse in the United States
Magazine article from: Ethnic Studies Review; 4/30/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...identifying the themes that have nurtured nativism historically. Some important relationships...Nazi Germany and contemporary American nativism. In each chapter, variants of these...fact, the two concepts, racism and nativism, become synonymous as one dredges through...
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Racial nativism goes against our traditions.(News)
Newspaper article from: Cape Times (South Africa); 2/12/2008; 700+ words
; ...dynamic goes under the rise of racial nativism. This is the idea that the true custodians...interlopers or black sell-outs. Racial nativism goes against the long traditions of racial...government (what can be called racial nativism) is a negative and destructive one that...
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Iranian Intellectuals and the West: The Tormented Triumph of Nativism
Magazine article from: The Middle East Journal; 4/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...and the West: The Tormented Triumph of Nativism, by Mehrzad Boroujerdi. New York...s central thesis is that a form of nativism, or an "admixture of anti-Westernization...in Iran. Before the 1979 revolution, nativism played a formative role in the "social...
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Nativism
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Nativism Nativism is a recurring social and political movement characterized principally...supposed foreigners. While the attitudes and dynamics that distinguish nativism have developed and continue to develop in many countries, the term...
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nativism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
nativism in anthropology, social movement that...rejection of alien persons or culture. Nativism occurs within almost all areas of nonindustrial...One of the earliest careful studies of nativism was that of James Mooney (1896), who...
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After the Great War: Nativism and the Ku Klux Klan
Book article from: American Decades
AFTER THE GREAT WAR: NATIVISM AND THE KU KLUX KLAN A Revitalized...was not the only visible symptom of nativism during the 1920s. The decade also...the Klan's cherished beliefs in nativism, white supremacy, and Protestantism...
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Jim Crow, Nativism, and Racism
Book article from: American Decades
JIM CROW, NATIVISM, AND RACISM Jim Crow Matures By 1900 southern segregationists had completed much of their legislative agenda. Through legal devices...
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After the Great War: Nativism
Book article from: American Decades
AFTER THE GREAT WAR: NATIVISM Fear and Resentment In the shaky peacetime economy that followed the Great War in Europe, Americans, especially organized labor...
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