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United States --- Civilization --- Encyclopedias --- To 1783
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Discusses how information moved through 18th- and 19th-century American society, mainly through the expansion of the printed word and its change from the possession of the learned and wealthy into a mass-audience market.
Communication --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- History --- United States --- Civilization --- To 1783 --- 1783-1865 --- History.
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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. 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
National characteristics, American --- History. --- United States --- Civilization --- National characteristics [American ] --- History --- 1783-1865 --- To 1783
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Traces the development of America from the earliest settlements through the American Revolution, focusing on the attitudes and forces that formed the American character.
National characteristics, American. --- Geschichte. --- To 1783. --- United States --- Civilization --- Intellectual life.
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The most fertile novelty of the New World was not its climate, its plants, its animals, or its minerals, but its new concept of knowledge. The wealth of the new-found land could enable men to live well by Old World standards, but the realization that knowledge itself might be different from what men had before believed - this opened up realms never before dreamed of.. Men in the New World found unsuspected possibilities in life everywhere. No American invention has influenced the world so powerfully as the concept of knowledge which sprang from the American experience. To understand that disco
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American portraits --- Amerikaanse portretten --- Portraits [American ] --- Portraits américains --- Portretten [Amerikaanse ] --- Portraits, American --- Portraits, Colonial --- Portraits coloniaux --- United States --- Etats-Unis --- Civilization --- Civilisation --- Portraits américains --- To 1783
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Given in memory of Mary Collie Cooper by the Texas Research Ramblers.
Politics and government. --- War --- Causes. --- Dickinson, John, --- To 1783. --- Pennsylvania --- Pennsylvania. --- Pennsylvanie --- United States --- United States. --- États-Unis --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- History --- Causes --- Histoire
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American national characteristics --- Amerikaans volkskarakter --- Caractéristiques nationales américaines --- National characteristics [American ] --- Volkskarakter [Amerikaans ] --- National characteristics, American --- Mather, Cotton, --- Franklin, Benjamin, --- United States --- Etats-Unis --- Civilization --- Civilisation --- Caractéristiques nationales américaines --- Franklin, Benjamin --- To 1783
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Traces the development of the first newspapers published in the American colonies, and sets their emergence against the history of the press in London and the English countryside. The book also explores how information once designed mainly for private transmission became public property.
History of North America --- newspapers --- Journalism --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- American newspapers --- History --- United States --- Civilization --- To 1783 --- British newspapers --- British newspapers - History. --- Newspapers --- History. --- Journaux americains --- Histoire --- Journaux anglais --- Civilisation americaine
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