The Americans. [2], the national experience
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| Natura: | Livre papier |
| Lingua: | Anglais |
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New York :
Vintage books
C 1965.
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| Serie: | Vintage books
358 Vintage history 358 |
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Second volume d'une trilogie de l'auteur, le premier volume s'intitule " The Americans, the colonial experience" ; le troisième volume "The Americans, the democratic experience" Autres tirages : 1967, 2009 |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
Sommario:
- Book One, Community.
- Part I, The Versatiles: New Englanders.
- 1- The Sea Leads Everywhere.
- 2- Inventing Resources: Ice for the Indies.
- 3- Inventing Resources: Granite for a New Stone Age.
- 4- Organizing the American Factory.
- 5- From Skill to Know-how: "A Circulating Current".
- 6- A Common-Law Way of Thinking.
- 7- The Improving Spirit.
- Part II, The Transients: Joiners.
- 8- On the Continent-Ocean: Men Move in Groups.
- 9- The Organizers.
- 10- Community Before Government.
- 11- The Natural Law of Transient Communities: Claim Clubs and Priority Rule.
- 12- The Natural Law of Transient Communities: Vigilantism and Majority Rule.
- 13- Leaving Things Behind.
- 14- Getting There First.
- 15- The Democracy of Haste.
- Part III, The Upstarts: Boosters.
- 16- The Businessman as an American Institution.
- 17- The Booster Press.
- 18- "Palaces of the Public".
- 19- The Balloon-Frame House.
- 20- Culture with Many Capitals: The Booster College.
- 21- Competitive Communities.
- Part IV, The Rooted and the Uprooted: Southerners, White and Black.
- 22- How the Planter Lost His Versability.
- 23- Indelible Immigrants.
- 24- Invisible Communities : The Negroes' Churches.
- 25- The Unwritten Law: How It Grew in Slavery.
- 26- How Southern Gentlemen Became Honor-bound.
- 27- Metaphysical Politics.
- Book Two, Nationality.
- Part V, The Vagueness of the Land.
- 28- A Half-known Country: Settlement Before Discovery.
- 29- Packaging a Continent.
- 30- Government as a Service Institution.
- 31- Uncertain Boundaries.
- 32- A Dubious Destiny.
- Part VI, American Ways of Talking.
- 33- An Ungoverned Vocabulary.
- 34- Tall Talk: Half-Truth or Half-Lie?
- 35- Booster Talk: The Language of Anticipation.
- 36- Names in Profusion and Confusion.
- 37- A Declamatory Literature.
- Part VII, Search for Symbols.
- 38- Heroes or Clowns?Comic Supermen from a Subliterature.
- 39- The Mythologizing of George Washington.
- 40- How Local Patriotism Made National Heroes.
- 41- The Quest for a National Past.
- 42- A Festival of National Purpose.
- Part VIII, A Spacious Republic.
- 43- The Imperial Vagueness: From Sovereignty to Federalism.
- 44- The Federal Vagueness: Born in Secession.
- 45- Quests for Definition: Constitutions of the United States.
- 46- Unionist Ways from a Secessionist Tradition.