LEADER 03087nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910781750203321 005 20230725051447.0 010 $a0-19-977991-0 010 $a1-283-29696-9 010 $a9786613296962 010 $a0-19-975092-0 035 $a(CKB)2550000000050194 035 $a(EBL)784781 035 $a(OCoLC)756484838 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000542183 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12202875 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000542183 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10509785 035 $a(PQKB)11783999 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC784781 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL784781 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10501022 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL329696 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000050194 100 $a20091029d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUnbecoming British$b[electronic resource] $ehow revolutionary America became a postcolonial nation /$fKariann Akemi Yokota 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (367 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-021787-1 311 $a0-19-539342-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 Knowledge 327 $aCONCLUSION: The Long Goodbye: Breaking with the British in Nineteenth-century AmericaNotes; Index 330 $aWhat 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 themsel 606 $aNational characteristics, American$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization$y1783-1865 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization$yTo 1783 615 0$aNational characteristics, American$xHistory. 676 $a973.3/39 700 $aYokota$b Kariann Akemi$01482493 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781750203321 996 $aUnbecoming British$93700158 997 $aUNINA