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Unbecoming British : how revolutionary America became a postcolonial nation / Kariann Akemi Yokota.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yokota, Kariann Akemi.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, American--History.
- National characteristics, American.
- History.
- United States--Civilization--1783-1865.
- United States.
- Civilization.
- United States--Civilization--To 1783.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 A New Nation on the Margins of the Global Map 19
- Chapter 2 A Culture of Insecurity: Americans in a Transatlantic World of Goods 62
- Chapter 3 A Revolution Revived: American and British Encounters in Canton, China 115
- Chapter 4 Sowing the Seeds of Postcolonial Discontent: The Transatlantic Exchange of American Nature and BritishPatronage 153
- Chapter 5 "A Great Curiosity": The American Quest for Racial Refinement and Knowledge 192.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780195393422
- 0195393422
- OCLC:
- 463855412
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