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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... problems , the nature of a national character is the most difficult and the most important . " For all Adams's voluminous histories , es- says , works of fiction , and biographies , however , no statement has had a more enduring impact ...
... problems , the nature of a national character is the most difficult and the most important . " For all Adams's voluminous histories , es- says , works of fiction , and biographies , however , no statement has had a more enduring impact ...
Pagina 9
... problems of the 1930s , the national character was not a primary focus of attention . Emphasis shifted from the national and abstract to the local and particular as politicians , anthropolo- gists , journalists , and artists joined in a ...
... problems of the 1930s , the national character was not a primary focus of attention . Emphasis shifted from the national and abstract to the local and particular as politicians , anthropolo- gists , journalists , and artists joined in a ...
Pagina 11
... problem of waging a total war , including psychological warfare , against little - known and inaccessible enemies — which stimulated this special scientific development . " While Mead was analyzing the Americans , Ruth Benedict was ...
... problem of waging a total war , including psychological warfare , against little - known and inaccessible enemies — which stimulated this special scientific development . " While Mead was analyzing the Americans , Ruth Benedict was ...
Pagina 12
... problems might have seemed . The swift and sure prosecution of the Persian Gulf War in 1990-91 loosed an outpour- ing of patriotism and homage , at home and around the world , such as had not been seen since 1945. To many Americans ...
... problems might have seemed . The swift and sure prosecution of the Persian Gulf War in 1990-91 loosed an outpour- ing of patriotism and homage , at home and around the world , such as had not been seen since 1945. To many Americans ...
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... problems for social- scientific theory and research : To what extent do the patterned conditions of life in a particular society give rise to certain distinctive patterns in the personalities of its members ? To what extent , that is ...
... problems for social- scientific theory and research : To what extent do the patterned conditions of life in a particular society give rise to certain distinctive patterns in the personalities of its members ? To what extent , that is ...
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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