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Bezig met laden... Unbecoming British: How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial Nationdoor Kariann Akemi Yokota
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Great concept and very erudite but it's a bit of a slog to read my way through. Maybe that says more about me than the book? Nevertheless, if you're interested in the way in which Anglo-American relations developed in the years after the Revolution, this is a great book to fill you in. I loved the materials on literary culture most of all and found the tension of the commercial elements of early copyright an interesting sideline to colonials with chips on their shoulders versus Britons who were best by virtue of their Britishness! ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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 Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)973.3History and Geography North America United States Revolution and confederation (1775-89)LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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