03090nam 2200601 a 450 991045757680332120200520144314.01-283-29696-997866132969620-19-975092-0(CKB)2550000000050194(EBL)784781(OCoLC)756484838(SSID)ssj0000542183(PQKBManifestationID)12202875(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000542183(PQKBWorkID)10509785(PQKB)11783999(MiAaPQ)EBC784781(Au-PeEL)EBL784781(CaPaEBR)ebr10501022(CaONFJC)MIL329696(EXLCZ)99255000000005019420091029d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrUnbecoming British[electronic resource] how revolutionary America became a postcolonial nation /Kariann Akemi YokotaOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20101 online resource (367 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-021787-1 0-19-539342-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: Unbecoming British: How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial Nation; CHAPTER ONE: A New Nation on the Margins of the Global Map; CHAPTER TWO: A Culture of Insecurity: Americans in a Transatlantic World of Goods; CHAPTER THREE: A Revolution Revived: American and British Encounters in Canton, China; CHAPTER FOUR: Sowing the Seeds of Postcolonial Discontent: The Transatlantic Exchange of American Nature and British Patronage; CHAPTER FIVE: "A Great Curiosity": The American Quest for Racial Refinement and KnowledgeCONCLUSION: The Long Goodbye: Breaking with the British in Nineteenth-century AmericaNotes; IndexWhat can homespun cloth, stuffed birds, quince jelly, and ginseng reveal about the formation of early American national identity? In this wide-ranging and bold new interpretation of American history and its Founding Fathers, Kariann Akemi Yokota shows that political independence from Britain fueled anxieties among the Americans about their cultural inferiority and continuing dependence on the mother country. Caught between their desire to emulate the mother country and an awareness that they lived an ocean away on the periphery of the known world, they went to great lengths to convince themselNational characteristics, AmericanHistoryUnited StatesCivilization1783-1865United StatesCivilizationTo 1783Electronic books.National characteristics, AmericanHistory.973.3/39Yokota Kariann Akemi919631MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457576803321Unbecoming British2062781UNINA