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The third volume in Daniel Boorstin´s trilogy is a history of how European ideas and traditions and the experience of living in a New World shaped institutions, customs and world understanding in the new nation. Inventiveness, lack of external supervision, and wide-open spaces lead to American vernacular, mythology, and governance.
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American National characteristics, Civilization, Colonial period, Economic conditions, History, United States, Civilisation, Américains, Civilización, 1783 1865, Vie intellectuelle, Histoire, Bildung, Diplomatie, Economic history, Conditions économiques, Kultur, Minorities, united states, United states, history, colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, National characteristics, american, United states, civilization, to 1783, United states, civilization, E162 .b68 1964Places
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The Americans
September 21, 2000, Weidenfeld & Nicholson history, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Book Details
First Sentence
"America grew in the search for community."
Table of Contents
New Beginnings
Page vii
Book One: Community
Part One - The Versatiles: New Englanders
Page 3
1.
The Sea Leads Everywhere
Page 5
2.
Inventing Resources: Ice for the Indies
Page 10
3.
Inventing Resources: Granite for a New Stone Age
Page 16
4.
Organizing the American Factory
Page 20
5.
From Skill to Know-how: "A Circulating Current"
Page 26
6.
A Common-Law Way of Thinking
Page 35
7.
The Improving Spirits
Page 43
Part Two -The Transients: Joiners
Page 49
8.
On the Continent-Ocean: Men Move in Groups
Page 51
9.
The Organizers
Page 57
10.
Community before Government
Page 65
11.
The Natural Law of Transient Communities: Claim Clubs and Priority Rule
Page 72
12.
The Natural Law of Transient Communities: Vigilantism and Majority Rule
Page 81
13.
Leaving Things Behind
Page 90
14.
Getting There First
Page 97
15.
The Democracy of Haste
Page 107
Part Three - The Upstarts: Boosters
Page 113
16.
The Businessman as an American Institution
Page 115
17.
The Booster Press
Page 124
18.
"Palaces of the Public"
Page 134
19.
The Balloon-Frame House
Page 148
20.
Culture with Many Capitals: The Booster College
Page 152
21.
Competitive Communities
Page 161
Part Four - The Rooted and the Uprooted: Southerners, White and Black
Page 169
22.
How the Planter Lost His Versatility
Page 171
23.
Indelible Immigrants
Page 179
24.
Invisible Comunities: The Negroes' Churches
Page 190
25.
The Unwritten Law: How it Grew in Slavery
Page 199
26.
How Southern Gentlemen Became Honor-bound
Page 206
27.
Metaphysical Politics
Page 212
Book Two: Nationality
Part Five: The Vagueness of the Land
Page 221
28.
A Half-Known Country: Settlement Before Discovery
Page 223
29.
Packaging a Continent
Page 241
30.
Government as a Service Institution
Page 249
31.
Uncertain Boundaries
Page 256
32.
A Dubious Destiny
Page 264
Part Six: American Ways of Talking
Page 275
33.
An Ungoverned Vocabulary
Page 277
34.
Talk Talk: Half-Truth or Half-Lie?
Page 289
35.
Booster Talk: The Language of Anticipation
Page 296
36.
Names in Profusion and Confusion
Page 299
37.
A Declamatory Literature
Page 307
Part Seven: Search for Symbols
Page 325
38.
Heroes or Clowns? Comic Supermen from a Subliterature
Page 327
39.
The Mythologizing of George Washington
Page 337
40.
How Local Patriotism Made National Heroes
Page 356
41.
The Quest for a National Past
Page 362
42.
A Festival of National Purpose
Page 323
Part Eight: A Spacious Republic
Page 391
43.
The Imperial Vagueness: From Sovereignty to Federalism
Page 393
44.
The Federal Vagueness: Born in Secession
Page 400
45.
Quests for Definition: Constitutions of the United States
Page 406
46.
Unionist Ways from a Sucessionist Tradition
Page 417
Acknowledgements
Page 431
Bibliographical Notes
Page 433
Index
Page 497
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