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“The Taste of This Country”: Jefferson’s Legacy of Cultural Production and The Formation of American Identity
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>This paper uses three fundamental elements of cultural anthropology, food, customs, and language, to examine Jefferson’s diplomatic strategy as president and understanding how he forged a new culture rooted in republicanism. The legacy of tyrannical British rule spurred Jefferson to establish White House protocol which dispensed with the hierarchies of European social practices and instead mirrored republican values of liberty and equality. Analyzing Jefferson’s presidency within a framework of cultural production, reveals that Jefferson strategically deployed cultural elements in the construction of a distinctly American identity.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts (MA)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- War and Society
- Year
- 2022
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Gibson, Erika
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Alex Bay
- Stephanie Takaragawa
- Jennifer Keene
Subjects
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dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/war_and_society_theses/30
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:digitalcommons.chapman.edu:war_and_society_theses-1030