The volume ably demonstrates that the new American nationality was, to a large degree, fictitious, as it excluded women, non-Europeans and members of the lower classes.
H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Review The essays in Community without Consent reflect the cultural and linguistic turn in historiography, shifting the focus from constitutionalism and political thought ... Read moreto popular culture as revealed in sermons, slave narratives, poems, print media, and accounts of crowd actions and riots. Rather than treating these historical texts as straightforward documentary evidence, the literary critics and historians who contributed to this volume approach these sources creatively, exploring their production, reception, dissemination, and often ambiguous and multiple meanings.
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