Americans: a collision of histories

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 "America...

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Main Author: Countryman, Edward (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Hill and Wang 1996
Edition:1. ed.
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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
Physical Description:XXIII, 294 S.
ISBN:0809025930

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