Americans, a collision of histories / Edward Countryman.
Countryman, Edward.
1996
E169.1 .C792 1996 (Mapit)
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Title Americans, a collision of histories / Edward Countryman.
Author Countryman, Edward.
Spine Title Americans
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780809025930
0809025930
Imprint New York : Hill and Wang, 1996.
Language English
Description xxiii, 294 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number E169.1 .C792 1996
Dewey Decimal Classification 306/.0973
Summary In recent decades it has become fashionable to maintain that the experience of various American ethnic groups - whether African, Indian, or European - is the most significant. In this important social history, the noted scholar Edward Countryman shows, instead, why the very identity of "American" - forged by all these people - is what matters.
This is a scintillating analysis of what becoming American means in historical terms. Edward Countryman offers not one perspective of American history (and thus one identity) but all the perspectives that have contributed to our sense of nationality.
Note This is a scintillating analysis of what becoming American means in historical terms. Edward Countryman offers not one perspective of American history (and thus one identity) but all the perspectives that have contributed to our sense of nationality.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Pt. 1. Slavery and Freedom, Loss and Gain. 1. A Collision of Histories. 2. Braudel's American Mosaic. 3. Colonial Revolts, American Revolution. 4. The Revolution and the Republic
Pt. 2. What, Then, Were These Americans? 5. Mountains, Valleys, and Plains. 6. Capital Cities. 7. "With Iron Interlaced" 8. Citizens, Subjects, and Slaves: The Republican Mosaic
Pt. 3. A House Burst Asunder. 9. The Crisis of Triumphant Democracy. 10. "Engaged in a Great Civil War" 11. In One, Many. Coda: The Vexed, Unanswered Question.

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