Making America: The Society & Culture of the United StatesLuther S. Luedtke UNC Press Books, 1992 - 554 pagini In this richly interdisciplinary work twenty-eight of the nation's leading critics and scholars offer a comprehensive exploration of American society and culture. Each outstanding in his or her own field, the contributors address "America" from a diversit |
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Pagina ix
... give a critical and historical account of the United States that will both excite the public interest and provide a text for college and university courses in American Studies and related fields ; to do so in one volume ; ix Preface ...
... give a critical and historical account of the United States that will both excite the public interest and provide a text for college and university courses in American Studies and related fields ; to do so in one volume ; ix Preface ...
Pagina xi
... course , that one would like to know about the United States . A longer work might have emphasized agricul- ture ... courses in history , literature , society , politics , rhetoric and composition , and American Studies . The ...
... course , that one would like to know about the United States . A longer work might have emphasized agricul- ture ... courses in history , literature , society , politics , rhetoric and composition , and American Studies . The ...
Pagina xii
... course of its development this book has benefited from the advice of friends and critics , both in the United States and abroad , who are too numerous to acknowledge here . I do want , however , to thank the USIA's Merrill Miller ...
... course of its development this book has benefited from the advice of friends and critics , both in the United States and abroad , who are too numerous to acknowledge here . I do want , however , to thank the USIA's Merrill Miller ...
Pagina 1
... course the one American I speak of is mythical ; but to speak in parables is inevitable in such a subject , and it is perhaps as ✩well to do so frankly .... As it happens , the symbolic American can be made largely adequate to the ...
... course the one American I speak of is mythical ; but to speak in parables is inevitable in such a subject , and it is perhaps as ✩well to do so frankly .... As it happens , the symbolic American can be made largely adequate to the ...
Pagina 6
... course , hardly does justice to the colorful skein of American life today or the complex and man- ifold ways in which the American nation has evolved . Skeptics , indeed , will ask whether it is not futile to seek commonality among a ...
... course , hardly does justice to the colorful skein of American life today or the complex and man- ifold ways in which the American nation has evolved . Skeptics , indeed , will ask whether it is not futile to seek commonality among a ...
Cuprins
Americas Natural Landscapes | 41 |
From Immigration to Acculturation | 68 |
The Frontier Family Dislocation and the American Experience | 83 |
A Consonance of Towns | 95 |
Urban America | 110 |
Cultural Regions of America | 129 |
EXPRESSIONS OF AMERICAN CULTURE | 145 |
American Manners | 148 |
Continuity and Change in American Family Life | 306 |
Women and American Society | 325 |
The Making of Black America | 339 |
Status and Social Class in America | 360 |
The American System of Education | 374 |
VARIETIES OF AMERICAN THOUGHT | 391 |
Religion in America | 395 |
Exploration and the a Culture of Science The Long Goodbye of the Twentieth Century | 411 |
The Artlessness of American Culture | 162 |
A New Architecture Yet Old | 174 |
Creating a National Literature | 217 |
Literature and Values The American Crusoe and the Idea of the West | 234 |
Entertainment and the Mass Media | 252 |
Sports and American Culture | 270 |
SOCIETY AND VALUES | 287 |
Individualism and Equality in the United States | 290 |
American Philosophy | 430 |
Civil Disobedience in American Political Thought | 451 |
The Courts and the Law | 463 |
Gender and Equality in the American Experience | 479 |
Reform and Social Change | 498 |
Contributors | 519 |
Index | 521 |
Alte ediții - Afișează-le pe toate
Making America: The Society & Culture of the United States, Volumul 2 Luther S. Luedtke Vizualizare fragmente - 1992 |
Making America: The Society & Culture of the United States, Volumul 2 Luther S. Luedtke Vizualizare fragmente - 1992 |
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Pagina 5 - I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen...
Pagina 38 - That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness, that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients, that masterful grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic but powerful to effect great ends, that restless, nervous energy," that dominant individualism, working for good and for evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom, these are traits of the frontier, or traits called out elsewhere because of the existence of the frontier.
Pagina 37 - Stand at Cumberland Gap and watch the procession of civilization, marching single file — the buffalo following the trail to the salt springs, the Indian, the fur-trader and hunter, the cattle-raiser, the pioneer farmer — and the frontier has passed by. Stand at South Pass in the Rockies a century later and see the same procession with wider intervals between.
Pagina 39 - Passage to India! Lo, soul, seest thou not God's purpose from the first? The earth to be spann'd, connected by network, The races, neighbors, to marry and be given in marriage, The oceans to be cross'd, the distant brought near, The lands to be welded together.
Pagina 517 - David J. Rothman, The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic (Boston: Little, Brown, 1971...
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