America's True Mother Country?

Download or read book America's True Mother Country? written by G.H. Joost Baarssen and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2014 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis analyzes American images of the Dutch since the second half of the 19th century. Works by John Lothrop Motley (1814-1877), Douglas Campbell (1840-1893), and William Elliot Griffis (1843-1928) are explored to assess the transformation in American thinking about the Dutch of the Netherlands and Dutch-Americans. These writers celebrate the Dutch as proto-Americans, while using the characteristically American typological approach to history to make sense of themselves and their country. Thesis. (Series: MasteRResearch - Vol. 5)