Unbecoming British [[electronic resource] ] : how revolutionary America became a postcolonial nation / / Kariann Akemi Yokota
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| Autore: |
Yokota Kariann Akemi
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| Titolo: |
Unbecoming British [[electronic resource] ] : how revolutionary America became a postcolonial nation / / Kariann Akemi Yokota
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (367 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 973.3/39 |
| Soggetto topico: | National characteristics, American - History |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Civilization 1783-1865 |
| United States Civilization To 1783 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 Knowledge |
| CONCLUSION: The Long Goodbye: Breaking with the British in Nineteenth-century AmericaNotes; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | What 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Unbecoming British |
| ISBN: | 1-283-29696-9 |
| 9786613296962 | |
| 0-19-975092-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910457576803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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