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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-13544-9haped by the overshadowing questions of how and when to bring slavery to an end. While virtually everyone agreed that Lincoln and the US Civil War had made abolition elsewhere inevitable at some point, beyond that there was very little consensus about what else the US experience implied for other co

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Liberty, Lipstick, and Lobsters,at US women were educated and that relations between the sexes were much freer than in Europe.. Was it possible that all this independence for women, “the most absolute choice allowed them, of where they will go, and what they shall do and say—[could] tend to the happiness, or the best development o

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A World Apart, a Race Apart?,f the American way life relied on a different terminology from the one we are familiar with today. Designations such as “l(fā)e frère Jonathan,” “Uncle Sam,” or “el yanqui” were popular colloquialisms. Yet, when it came to explaining American society or identifying its particularities, such labels prove

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Conclusion,tates often presented itself as a “spectacle,” a grand performance of all things modern, it is hardly surprising that any-one who caught even a glimpse of the show felt entitled to pass comment. America was not only a place people felt they knew, at least as part of their imagined life, but it was a