The End of Anglo-America: Historical Essays in the Study of Cultural Divergence - Hardcover

9780719030772: The End of Anglo-America: Historical Essays in the Study of Cultural Divergence

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719030773 ISBN 13: 9780719030772

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 1991

This collection of essays examines the phenomenon of the gradually evolving cultural differences which took place between America and Britain after the American revolution. A culture of individualism began to emerge in contrast with elitism, leading to suspicion of government and emerging personal ambitions, particularly with regard to one's children. However, cultural changes emerged at a different pace in different parts of the country. One author argues that Britain and America continued as members of a single political family which, in turn, belonged to a wider European community. Another suggests that a clear but selective emancipation from the British political culture took place and that a development of distinctly American institutions and practices emerged. Yet another believes that in the United States there was less criticism of business success and less possibility of the generations that succeeded business success being seduced by gentrification.

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