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.

United States--Civilization--1783-1865.

United States.

United States--Civilization--To 1783.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (367 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-977991-0

1-283-29696-9

9786613296962

0-19-975092-0

OCLC:

756484838