Arguing that American colonists who declared their independence in 1776 remained tied to England by both habit and inclination, Clark traces the new Americans' struggle to come to terms with their loss of identity as British, and particularly English, citizens. Clark's study shows that any attempt to examine what it meant to be American in the New
Oktober 2024, ca. 244 Seiten, Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies, Englisch
Taylor and Francis
978-1-032-92554-7