| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 354 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Unbecoming british : How revolutionary america became a postcolonial nation -- A new nation on the margins of the global map -- A culture of insecurity : Americans in a transatlantic worls of goods -- A revolution revived : American and british encounters in Canton, China -- Sowing the seeds of postcolonial discontent : The transatlantic exchange of american nature and british patronage -- "A great curiosity" : The american quest for racial refinement and knowledge -- The long goodbye : Breaking with the british in nineteenth-century america. |
| Summary |
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. |
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National characteristics, American -- History.
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United States -- Civilization -- 1783-1865.
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United States -- Civilization -- To 1783.
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HISTORY -- United States -- Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
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Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
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National characteristics, American. (OCoLC)fst01033342
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
To 1865
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Yokota, Kariann Akemi. Unbecoming British : How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial Nation. Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, ©2011 9780195393422 |
| ISBN |
9780199750924 (electronic bk.) |
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0199750920 (electronic bk.) |
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