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1 online resource (xix, 315 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-305) and index. |
Contents |
Preface -- Introduction -- I : Tracing unities -- Hanging together : divergent unities in American history ; America in person : the evolution of national symbols ; Rediscovering the pragmatic American -- Specialization in a democracy -- II : Integrating diversity -- Integrating America : the problem of assimilation at the turn of the century ; Immigration and American mythology ; Pluralistic integration as an American model ; Three postwar reconstructions -- III : Turning points -- From boundlessness to consolidation : the transformation of American culture, 1848-1860 ; America's utopian prophets ; Reorientation of American culture in the 1890s ; Long road to the New Deal -- IV : Prospects -- Multiculturalism and universalism : a history and critique ; Future of American history. |
Summary |
How has America, with its many ethnic, class, and ideological divisions, allowed divergent groups to 'hang together' as Americans? This book explores the ways in which Americans have conceived of a national identity and demonstrates that an appreciation of America's kaleidoscopic diversity can be reconciled with an affirmation of its common national culture. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Cultural pluralism -- United States.
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Cultural pluralism. |
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United States. |
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Group identity -- United States.
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Group identity. |
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National characteristics, American.
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National characteristics, American. |
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Historiography -- United States.
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Historiography. |
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United States -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
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United States -- Ethnic relations.
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Ethnic relations. |
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United States -- Civilization.
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Civilization. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Guarneri, Carl, 1950-
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Other Form: |
Print version: Higham, John, 1920-2003. Hanging together. New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, ©2001 0300088183 9780300088182 (DLC) 00049540 (OCoLC)45166674 |
ISBN |
9780300129823 (electronic book) |
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0300129823 (electronic book) |
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0300088183 |
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9780300088182 |
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