| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiii, 400 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-381) and index. |
| Contents |
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface: Paying Respects; 1 Monarch-Love; or, How the Prince of Wales Saved the Union; 2 Imperial Nostalgia: American Elegies for British Empire; 3 Freedom and Deference: Society, Antislavery, and BlackIntellectualism; 4 The Anglophile Academy; Notes; Index. |
| Summary |
Anglophilia charts the phenomenon of the love of Britain that emerged after the Revolution and remains in the character of U.S. society and class, the style of academic life, and the idea of American intellectualism. But as Tamarkin shows, this Anglophilia was more than just an elite nostalgia; it was popular devotion that made reverence for British tradition instrumental to the psychological innovations of democracy. Anglophilia spoke to fantasies of cultural belonging, polite sociability, and, finally, deference itself as an affective practice within egalitarian politics. Tamarkin traces the. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American Revolution (United States : 1775-1783) |
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United States -- Civilization -- British influences.
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United States. |
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Civilization. |
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United States -- Relations -- Great Britain.
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Relations. |
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Great Britain. |
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Great Britain -- Relations -- United States.
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Great Britain -- Foreign public opinion, American.
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Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Public opinion. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Popular culture. |
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Democracy -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Democracy -- Social aspects. |
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Democracy. |
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Political culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Political culture. |
| Chronological Term |
1775-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tamarkin, Elisa. Anglophilia. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008 9780226789446 0226789446 (DLC) 2007020556 (OCoLC)137331383 |
| ISBN |
9780226789439 (electronic book) |
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0226789438 (electronic book) |
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1281966622 |
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9781281966629 |
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9780226789446 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0226789446 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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