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The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were both turbulent and polite; it was an age of virtuosos and pretenders; of [ libertinism and enlightenment, of reason and romanticism. It witnessed the rise of the novel, the birth of the modern encyclopedia, the cult of sensibility and the crafting of some of the sharpest satire in English.
It has uniquely American themes.
Besides the literature clearly reflected national characteristics of Americans - their practical, utilitarian morality and native cheerful humor, very different from the sarcastic, surly humor Englishmen
This tells us that their society was patriarchical and hierarchical. A man could have transfered his posesssions to his wife for example. If he died and only in the case of their sons (daughters aren't even mentioned) not claiming any of these posesions, could the mother decide which son would she would give the posessions.
It also does indicate fairness as, if none of them had any special desire which wanted what, she could decide how to divide or give these posessions away.
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the appeal of Adolf Hitler to the Germans, German dissatisfaction with the Versailles Treaty, the world wide economic depression of the 1930'S