...agriculturalist and close observer of American life, who declared in Letters from an American Farmer that "here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world." Wending its way into nineteenth-century...

...America as in essence a hybrid nation was articulated as early as the 17805 by Crevecoeur, who wrote: "Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world." J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur,...

...married a French woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. . . . Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. . . . they will finish the great...

...married a French woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. . . . Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world, (qtd. in Jordan 336) While this...

...to a Frenchwoman, with the couple's four sons married to wives of different nations, and explained, "Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of man, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world."18 Other early antecedents...

...descendant of a European; hence the strange mixture of blood, which you will find in no other country. . . . and prosperity will one day cause great changes in the world. Here the rewards of his industry follow with...

...French woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. He is an American, tely affected by a taxation in America, imposed by...operation and effect, upon the properties of the inhab lie obeys, and the new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of...

...prench woman, and whose present lour sons have now tour wives of different nations. He is an American, who leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices...new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced. , . , Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men," l. Hector St. lohn de Crevecoenr...

...an American, Crevecoeur (1782/1912, p. 43) declared: "He is an American who, leaving behind him all ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the government he obeys, the new rank he holds. . . . Here, individuals of all nations are melted into...

...French woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds. He becomes an...