Made in America : an informal history of the English language in the United States / Bill Bryson.
Bryson, Bill.
2001
PE2809 .B79 2001 (Mapit)
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Title Made in America : an informal history of the English language in the United States / Bill Bryson.
Author Bryson, Bill.
Edition Reissued in Perennial.
ISBN 9780380713813 (pbk.)
0380713810 (pbk.)
Imprint New York : Perennial, 2001, c1994.
Language English
Description xii, 417 p. ; 21 cm.
Call Number PE2809 .B79 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification 427.973
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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The Mayflower and before
Becoming Americans
A "democrataical phrenzy": America in the age of revolution
Making a nation
By the dawn's early light: forging a national identity
We're in the money: the age of invention
Names
"Manifest destiny": taming the West
The melting pot: immigration in America
When the going was good: travel in America
What's cooking? Eating in America
Democratizing luxury: shopping in America
Manners and other matters
The hard sell: advertising in America
The movies
The pursuit of pleasure: sport and play
Of bombs and bunkum: politics and war
Sex and other distractions
From Kitty Hawk to the jumbo jet
Welcome to the Space Age: the 1950s and beyond
American English today.

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