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This series examines major figures and movements that have influenced the development of American culture from the 16th century to the present. Each volume provides: a chronology of influential ideas and cultural trends, and associated historic events; lucid interpretation of intellectual activity at the time; illustrations accenting key concepts; a bibliographic essay; and a comprehensive index.
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Landsman (history, State U. of New York-Stony Brook) examines the submerged changes in British American colonial culture during a period in which history textbooks can find few actual events to report. He explains the shift in self-identity from exiles in a remote and isolated outpost of Europe to citizens of Britain. He cites the extension of the press and the world of books, pamphlets, and reading; the advent of evangelical religion; the dissemination of the Enlightenment; and the adoption of the rhetoric of British liberty and claims of rights, which led to trouble not far down the road. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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