Americans, a collision of histories / Edward Countryman.

Americans

1st ed.

9780809025930
0809025930

New York : Hill and Wang, 1996.

English

xxiii, 294 p. : maps ; 25 cm.

E169.1 .C792 1996

306/.0973

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.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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