| Document Type
|
:
|
BL
|
| Record Number
|
:
|
582266
|
| Doc. No
|
:
|
b411485
|
| Main Entry
|
:
|
Higham, John,1920-2003.
|
| Title & Author
|
:
|
Hanging together : : unity and diversity in American culture /\ John Higham ; edited by Carl J. Guarneri.
|
| Publication Statement
|
:
|
New Haven, Conn. :: Yale University Press,, c2001.
|
| Page. NO
|
:
|
xix, 315 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm.
|
| ISBN
|
:
|
0300088183 (alk. paper)
|
|
|
:
|
: 9780300088182 (alk. paper)
|
| Bibliographies/Indexes
|
:
|
Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.
|
| Abstract
|
:
|
"This book presents three decades of writings by one of America's most distinguished historians. John Higham, renowned for his influential works on immigration, ethnicity, political symbolism, and the writing of history, here traces the changing contours of American culture since its beginnings, focusing on the ways an extraordinarily mobile society has allowed divergent ethnic, class, and ideological groups to "hang together" as Americans."--BOOK JACKET.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Cultural pluralism-- United States.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Group identity-- United States.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
National characteristics, American.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Historiography-- United States.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
United States, Race relations.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
United States, Ethnic relations.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
United States, Civilization.
|
| LC Classification
|
:
|
E184.A1H488 2001
|
| Added Entry
|
:
|
Guarneri, Carl,1950-
|