TY - BOOK ID - 78045294 TI - Unbecoming British : how revolutionary America became a postcolonial nation PY - 2010 SN - 1283296969 9786613296962 0199750920 9780199750924 9780195393422 0199779910 PB - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - National characteristics, American KW - History. KW - United States KW - Civilization KW - National characteristics [American ] KW - History KW - 1783-1865 KW - To 1783 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78045294 AB - 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 ER -