In search of 'the American, this new man' : the literary quest for an American national character, 1760-1826
The American Revolution attempted to create both a separate American polity, and to differentiate the character of the American people constituting that polity from the rest of the world. But at the moment of Revolution, Americans were deeply divided over that character. Those divisions persisted th...
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University of Edinburgh
2006
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