AMERICAN political independence, declared in 1776, was followed by decades of cultural dependence on Great Britain. Sydney Smith’s famous taunt in 1820, ^”In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American […]
AMERICAN political independence, declared in 1776, was followed by decades of cultural dependence on Great Britain. Sydney Smith’s famous taunt in 1820, ^”In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American […]