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March 26, 2017 | Historical Reference

By Kariann Akemi Yokota

What can homespun textile, crammed birds, quince jelly, and ginseng exhibit concerning the formation of early American nationwide identification? during this wide-ranging and ambitious new interpretation of yank background and its Founding Fathers, Kariann Akemi Yokota exhibits that political independence from Britain fueled anxieties one of the american citizens approximately their cultural inferiority and carrying on with dependence at the mom kingdom. stuck among their wish to emulate the mummy nation and an know-how that they lived an ocean away at the outer edge of the identified global, they went to nice lengths to persuade themselves and others in their refinement. Taking a transnational method of American background, Yokota examines a wealth of proof from geography, the ornamental arts, highbrow background, technological know-how, and expertise to underscore that the method of "unbecoming British" was once no longer a simple one. certainly, the recent kingdom struggled to outline itself economically, politically, and culturally in what might be referred to as America's postcolonial interval. Out of this confusion of desire and exploitation, lack of confidence and imaginative and prescient, a uniquely American id emerged.

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