From Fellow-Nationals to Foreigners
British Perceptions of the Americans, circa 1739-1783
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3256145 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Conway (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 65 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The William and Mary Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-5597 • E-ISSN: 1933-7698 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3491638 |
| OpenAlex | W1965597512 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
selves as Britons, or even as part of the English nation, right until the eve of Independence. In the last decade or so of the colonial period, the Americans, far from growing away from the mother country, seem to have been more keen to assert their British-ness, prompting some historians to interpret the American Revolution as a crisis of integration rather than disintegration.1 The colonists embraced a new identitythat of Americans-only reluctantly and in response to the refusal of successive British governments after 1763 to recognize and accommodate their desire for what they saw as the full rights of Britons. But if changes
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2025 (21) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |