The Americans. [1], The colonial experience
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| Format: | Livre papier |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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New York :
Vintage books, a division of Random House
C 1958.
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| Collection: | A Caravelle edition
513 |
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| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Variante du titre: | The colonial experience |
Table des matières:
- Book One: The Vision and the Reality.
- Part I, A City Upon a Hill: The Puritans of Massachusetts Bay.
- 1- How Orthodoxy Made the Puritans Practical.
- 2- The Sermon as an American Institution.
- 3-Search for a New England Way.
- 4- Puritan Conservatism.
- 5- How Puritans Resisted the Temptation of Utopia.
- Part II, The Inward Plantation: The Quakers of Pennsylvania.
- 6- The Quest for Martyrdom.
- 7- Trials of Governing: The Oath.
- 8- Trials of Governing: Pacifism.
- 9- How Quakers Misjudged the Indians.
- 10- The Withdrawal.
- 11- The Curse of Perfectionism.
- Part III, Victims of Philanthropy: The Settlers of Georgia.
- 12- The Altruism of an Unheroic Age.
- 13- London Blueprint for Georgia Utopia.
- 14- A Charity Colony.
- Death of a Welfare Project.
- 15- The Perils of Altruism.
- Part IV, Transplanters: The Virginians.
- 17- English Gentlemen, American Style.
- 18- From Country Squire to Planter Capitalist.
- 19- Government by Gentry.
- 20- A Republic of Neighbors.
- 21- "Practical Godliness": An Episcopal Church Without Bishops.
- 22- "Practical Godliness": Toleration Without a Theory.
- 23- Citizens of Virginia.
- Book Twoo: Viewpoints and Institutions.
- Part V, An American Frame of Mind.
- 24- Wanted: A Philosophy of the Unexpected.
- 25- The Appeal to Self-Evidence.
- 26- Knowledge Comes Naturally.
- 27- The Natural-History Emphasis.
- Part VI, Educating the Community.
- 28- The Community Enters the University.
- 29- Higher Education in Place of Higher Learning.
- 30- The Ideal of the Undifferentiated Man.
- Part VII, The Learned Lose Their Monopolies.
- 31- The Fluidity of Professions.
- 32- The Unspecialized Lawyer.
- 33- The Fusion of Law and Politics.
- Part VIII, New World Medicine.
- 34- Nature-Healing and Simple Remedies.
- 35- Focus on the Community.
- 36- The General Practitioner.
- 37- Learning from Experience.
- Part IX- The Limits of American Science.
- 38- Popular Science: Astronomy for Everybody.
- 39- Naïve Insights and Ingenious Devices: Electricity.
- 40- Backwoods Farming.
- Book Three: Language and the Printed Word.
- Part X, The New Uniformity.
- 41- An American Accent.
- 42- Quest for a Standard.
- 43- Culture by the Book: The Spelling Fetish.
- Part XI, Culture Without a Capital.
- 44- "Rays Diverging from a Focus".
- 45- Boston's "Devout and Useful Books".
- 46- Manuals for Plantation Living.
- 47- The Way of the Marketplace: Philadelphia.
- 48- Poetry Without Poets.
- Part 12, A Conservative Press.
- 49- The Decline of the Book.
- 50- The Rise of the Newpaper.
- 51- Why Colonial Printed Matter Was Conservative.
- 52- "The Public Printer".
- Book Four : Warfare and Diplomacy.
- Part XIII, A Nation of Minute Men.
- 53- Defensive War and Naïve Diplomacy.
- 54- Colonel Militia and the Myth of Preparedness.
- 55- Home Rule and Colonial "Isolationism".
- 56-The Unprofessional Soldier.