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UNBECOMING BRITISH
UNBECOMING BRITISH
Subtitle:
How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial Nation
Book Category:
History > Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Author:
Kariann Akemi Yokota
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN 10:
0195393422
ISBN 13:
9780195393422
Price:
USD 34.95
Publication Year:
2011

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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.

 

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