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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 1964
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United States, États-Unis, EE. UU
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1783-1865, 1865-, 1865-1918, 20th century, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, To 1783, Jusqu'à 1783

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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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