Kariann Akemi Yokota

Unbecoming British

How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial Nation

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Produktbeschreibung

From household objects to maps and ideas of race, Kariann Yokota examines early US history through the lens of postcolonial theory. While its leaders went to great lengths to establish their "civility,"what really distinguished the new nation were its unlimited natural resources, slavery, and the displacement of native societies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780190217877
• ISBN-10: 0190217871
• Artikelnr.: 47863993

Autorenporträt

Kariann Akemi Yokota is Associate Professor of History at University of Colorado Denver.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction: Unbecoming British: How Revolutionary America Became a
Postcolonial Nation
* Ch 1: A New Nation on the Margins of the Global Map
* Ch 2: A Culture of Insecurity: Americans in a Transatlantic World of
Goods
* Ch 3: A Revolution Revived: American and British Encounters in
Canton, China
* Ch 4: Sowing the Seeds of Postcolonial Discontent: The Transatlantic
Exchange of American Nature and British Patronage
* Ch 5: "A Great Curiosity": The American Quest for Racial Refinement
and Knowledge
* Conclusion: The Long Goodbye: Breaking with the British in Nineteenth
Century America
* Notes
* Index