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American eras : early American civilizations and exploration to 1600
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ISBN: 0787614777 1414432879 0787614785 Year: 1998 Publisher: Detroit London Gale

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Knowledge is power : the diffusion of information in early America, 1700-1865
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ISBN: 0195044177 1601298579 1423737539 0195072650 1280441348 0198021348 9780195072655 9781423737537 0197714161 0197554997 Year: 1989 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Oxford university press

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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.


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Unbecoming British
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ISBN: 1283296969 9786613296962 0199750920 9780199750924 9780195393422 0199779910 Year: 2010 Publisher: Oxford New York Oxford University Press

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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


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The Americans; : the colonial experience
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Year: 1958 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Random House,

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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.

Americans : The Colonial Experience
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ISBN: 0795305729 Year: 2002 Publisher: : RosettaBooks,

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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

Albion's seed : four British folkways in America
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ISBN: 0195037944 Year: 1989 Volume: 1 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press

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Colonial American portraiture : the economic, religious, social, cultural, philosophical, scientific, and aesthetic foundations
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ISBN: 0521320445 Year: 1986 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press


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John Dickinson and the revolution in Pennsylvania, 1764-1776
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Year: 1965 Publisher: Berkeley [Calif.] : University of California Press,

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Given in memory of Mary Collie Cooper by the Texas Research Ramblers.


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Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin : the price of representative personality
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ISBN: 0521267684 Year: 1984 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

The public prints : the newspaper in Anglo-American culture, 1665-1740
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ISBN: 0195082338 0195359615 1280526785 1429405724 9781429405720 9781280526787 9780195082333 0197715605 Year: 1994 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Oxford University Press

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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.

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