Title: A nation of speechifiers
Subtitle: making an American public after the Revolution
First published: 2010
Description: In the decades after the American Revolution, a new national identity began to take shape. 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.
Subjects: History, Social aspects of Oratory, Oratory, Nationalism, Nationalism, united states, United states, social conditions, United states, history, 19th century, Social aspects
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century, 18th century
LC classification: PN4055.U5 E27 2010