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- Title
The Canada Thistle: The Pestilence of American Colonialisms and the Emergence of an Exceptionalist Identity, 1783-1839.
- Authors
SPENCE, TAYLOR
- Abstract
This research demonstrates how a European plant, Cirsium arvense, common to North America since the sixteenth century and commonly considered a weed, became “Canadian ” when Early National Americans labeled it the Canada thistle in the years leading up to the War of 1812. This naming comprised part of a host of actions citizens of the new United States took to differentiate themselves from their imperial progenitor, and thus, the Canada thistle might be considered an early origin-point of an American exceptionalist identity.
- Subjects
CANADIAN history; CANADA thistle; NATIONALISM; IMPERIALISM; INTERNATIONAL relations
- Publication
Agricultural History, 2016, Vol 90, Issue 4, p511
- ISSN
0002-1482
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3098/ah.2016.090.4.511