America In The British Imagination
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America In The British Imagination
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Author : J. Lyons
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-12-18
America In The British Imagination written by J. Lyons and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-18 with History categories.
How was American culture disseminated into Britain? Why did many British citizens embrace American customs? And what picture did they form of American society and politics? This engaging and wide-ranging history explores these and other questions about the U.S.'s cultural and political influence on British society in the post-World War II period.
America In The British Imagination
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Author : Catherine Armstrong
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
America In The British Imagination written by Catherine Armstrong and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Science categories.
No other region of the world has exerted such a fascination for the British, and for such a long time, as the United States of America. From the first explorations and settlements in the seventeenth century, through the heyday of the first British empire in the Americas in the eighteenth century and the fundamental re-conceptualisation of America following independence, to the present day American global hegemony a vast variety of Britons have looked across the Atlantic and pondered on American life, culture, politics and attitudes. In this volume a number of scholars from a variety of different disciplines (History, English, Theatre Studies, Music and History of Art) explore the ways in which Britons have imagined America. They show how some visited America themselves, while others relied on second-hand reports, but all engaged with America on various levels, often imagining and re-imagining it through different time-periods. The â ~realityâ (TM) of American life, or of American politics was one issue, as were other factors including American identity, culture, music and theatre, all of which were filtered through a shifting gaze ranging from admiration to outright hostility Included are essays on the printed representations of early Virginia, the view of British consuls living in the slave South, the interpretations of diverse writers such as Dickens, Auden, Orwell and Amis, and on the lyrics and other public pronouncements of the band Radiohead. The time frame runs from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, and should enable the reader the see how British perceptions and understandings of America have evolved over those 400 years. Ultimately, the complexity and ambiguity of British imaginings of America emerges as the central theme of the book.
America In The British Imagination
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Author : John F. Lyons
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2013-12-18
America In The British Imagination written by John F. Lyons and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-18 with History categories.
This lively and engaging cultural history explores a series of interrelated questions about the U.S.'s influence on British society in the years following World War II. How was American culture disseminated into Britain? Why did large sections of British society embrace American customs? What picture did British citizens form of American society and politics? And how did the Cold War's end and the September 11 attacks affect that picture? Here, author John F. Lyons draws on cinema, literature, contemporary journalism, unpublished oral interviews, and a host of other sources to explore not only the ways in which American society impacted Britain, but the ways in which America's complex identity was refracted in the minds of the citizens of its closest ally.
The Power Of Objects In Eighteenth Century British America
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Author : Jennifer Van Horn
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2017-02-23
The Power Of Objects In Eighteenth Century British America written by Jennifer Van Horn and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-23 with History categories.
Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America investigates these diverse artifacts—from portraits and city views to gravestones, dressing furniture, and prosthetic devices—to explore how elite American consumers assembled objects to form a new civil society on the margins of the British Empire. In this interdisciplinary transatlantic study, artifacts emerge as key players in the formation of Anglo-American communities and eventually of American citizenship. Deftly interweaving analysis of images with furniture, architecture, clothing, and literary works, Van Horn reconstructs the networks of goods that bound together consumers in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston. Moving beyond emulation and the desire for social status as the primary motivators for consumption, Van Horn shows that Anglo-Americans' material choices were intimately bound up with their efforts to distance themselves from Native Americans and African Americans. She also traces women's contested place in forging provincial culture. As encountered through a woman's application of makeup at her dressing table or an amputee's donning of a wooden leg after the Revolutionary War, material artifacts were far from passive markers of rank or political identification. They made Anglo-American society.
Empires Of The Imagination
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Author : Holger Hoock
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2010-07-09
Empires Of The Imagination written by Holger Hoock and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-09 with History categories.
Between the mid-18th and mid-19th centuries, Britain evolved from a substantial international power yet relative artistic backwater into a global superpower and a leading cultural force in Europe. In this original and wide-ranging book, Hoock illuminates the manifold ways in which the culture of power and the power of culture were interwoven in this period of dramatic change. Britons invested artistic and imaginative effort to come to terms with the loss of the American colonies; to sustain the generation-long fight against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France; and to assert and legitimate their growing empire in India. Demonstrating how Britain fought international culture wars over prize antiquities from the Mediterranean and Near East, the book explores how Britons appropriated ancient cultures from the Mediterranean, the Near East, and India, and casts a fresh eye on iconic objects such as the Rosetta Stone and the Parthenon Marbles.
America Through European Eyes
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Author : Aurelian Cr_iu_u
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2009
America Through European Eyes written by Aurelian Cr_iu_u and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
"A collection of essays that discuss representative eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French and English views of American democracy and society, and offer a critical assessment of various narrative constructions of American life, society, and culture"--Provided by publisher.
British America 1500 1800
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Author : Steven Sarson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Release Date : 2005
British America 1500 1800 written by Steven Sarson and has been published by Bloomsbury Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
Strangely, the histories of empires and colonies are usually distinct fields of inquiry. In this comprehensive volume, however, Sarson combines the histories of the First British Empire and its various colonies to create a sweeping introduction to, and interpretation of, the British-American New World.
The British Are Coming
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Author : Rick Atkinson
language : en
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Release Date : 2019-05-14
The British Are Coming written by Rick Atkinson and has been published by Henry Holt and Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-14 with History categories.
Winner of the George Washington Prize Winner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History Winner of the Excellence in American History Book Award Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award From the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy comes the extraordinary first volume of his new trilogy about the American Revolution Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about World War II, has long been admired for his deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative histories. Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he recounts the first twenty-one months of America’s violent war for independence. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental Army take on the world’s most formidable fighting force. It is a gripping saga alive with astonishing characters: Henry Knox, the former bookseller with an uncanny understanding of artillery; Nathanael Greene, the blue-eyed bumpkin who becomes a brilliant battle captain; Benjamin Franklin, the self-made man who proves to be the wiliest of diplomats; George Washington, the commander in chief who learns the difficult art of leadership when the war seems all but lost. The story is also told from the British perspective, making the mortal conflict between the redcoats and the rebels all the more compelling. Full of riveting details and untold stories, The British Are Coming is a tale of heroes and knaves, of sacrifice and blunder, of redemption and profound suffering. Rick Atkinson has given stirring new life to the first act of our country’s creation drama.
Gypsies And The British Imagination 1807 1930
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Author : Deborah Epstein Nord
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2008-11-28
Gypsies And The British Imagination 1807 1930 written by Deborah Epstein Nord and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930, is the first book to explore fully the British obsession with Gypsies throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. Deborah Epstein Nord traces various representations of Gypsies in the works of such well-known British authors John Clare, Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, George Eliot, Arthur Conan Doyle, and D. H. Lawrence. Nord also exhumes lesser-known literary, ethnographic, and historical texts, exploring the fascinating histories of nomadic writer George Borrow, the Gypsy Lore Society, Dora Yates, and other rarely examined figures and institutions. Gypsies were both idealized and reviled by Victorian and early-twentieth-century Britons. Associated with primitive desires, lawlessness, cunning, and sexual excess, Gypsies were also objects of antiquarian, literary, and anthropological interest. As Nord demonstrates, British writers and artists drew on Gypsy characters and plots to redefine and reconstruct cultural and racial difference, national and personal identity, and the individual's relationship to social and sexual orthodoxies. Gypsies were long associated with pastoral conventions and, in the nineteenth century, came to stand in for the ancient British past. Using myths of switched babies, Gypsy kidnappings, and the Gypsies' murky origins, authors projected onto Gypsies their own desires to escape convention and their anxieties about the ambiguities of identity. The literary representations that Nord examines have their roots in the interplay between the notion of Gypsies as a separate, often despised race and the psychic or aesthetic desire to dissolve the boundary between English and Gypsy worlds. By the beginning of the twentieth century, she argues, romantic identification with Gypsies had hardened into caricature-a phenomenon reflected in D. H. Lawrence's The Virgin and the Gipsy-and thoroughly obscured the reality of Gypsy life and history.
The Far East And The English Imagination 1600 1730
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Author : Robert Markley
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-01-12
The Far East And The English Imagination 1600 1730 written by Robert Markley and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
A 2006 investigation of the idea of the powerful Asian empires in the works of Milton, Dryden, Defoe and Swift.