Free Download Carolyn Eastman, "A Nation of Speechifiers: Making an American Public after the Revolution"
English | 2009 | pages: 303 | ISBN: 0226180190 | PDF | 1,9 mb
In the decades after the American Revolution, inhabitants of the United States began to shape a new national identity. Telling the story of this messy yet formative process, Carolyn Eastman argues that ordinary men and women gave meaning to American nationhood and national belonging by first learning to imagine themselves as members of a shared public.