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Author : Daniel J. Boorstin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307756480
Winner of the Bancroft Prize In this brilliantly original book, written for the general reader, the American past becomes richly meaningful to the present.
Author : Daniel Joseph Boorstin
Publisher : New York : Random House
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : National characteristics, American
ISBN : LCCN:58009884
Tells the story of how America came into being and defines the qualities of the American nation.
Author : Daniel J. Boorstin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : National characteristics, American
ISBN : OCLC:222355667
Author : Daniel J. Boorstin
Publisher : Random House Value Pub
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1995-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0517164159
Author : Daniel Joseph Boorstin
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : National characteristics, American
ISBN : 1842120735
This first volume in The Americans trilogy defines the unique qualities of the American nation and rediscovers the American character and way of life as it was shaped in the decisive years between the coming of the Pilgrims and the winning of Independence.
Author : Jeffrey Meyers,Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032190825
British colonialism provided a rich vein of material for the novelists of the first half of the 20th century. This study, originally published in 1968, looks at five writers and their reaction to the Empire: Rudyard Kipling, E. M. Forster, Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and Graham Greene. It shows how the romantic adventure stories of Kipling's early days, in which the indigenous population plays almost no part, gave rise to the much more important novels of spiritual and moral conflict in which the stereotyped values of Empire are questioned. The decline of colonialism from its apogee in the 1880s within a relatively short period makes the novels discussed a compact group, so that not only is the use of colonial material closely studied, but its impact on the novelists themselves emerges clearly. This is an important study of a major literary theme, linking modern literature and modern history at a vital point.
Author : Daniel J. Boorstin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1974-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780394710112
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A study of the last 100 years of American history.
Author : Verna Fisher
Publisher : Nomad Press
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781934670767
In Explore Colonial America!, kids ages 6-9 learn about America’s earliest days as European settlements, and how the colonists managed to survive, build thriving colonies, and eventually challenge England for independence. How did the colonists build homes, feed and clothe themselves, and get along with the Native Americans who were already here? This accessible introduction to the colonial period teaches young children about the daily lives of ordinary colonists and offers fascinating stories about those who helped shape the emerging nation. Activities range from creating a ship out of a bar of soap and building a log home out of graham crackers and pretzels to making a wampum necklace. Projects are easy-to-follow, require minimal adult supervision, and use primarily common household products and recycled supplies. By combining a hands-on element with riddles, jokes, fun facts, and comic cartoons, kids Explore Colonial America!, and have a great time discovering our nation’s founding years.
Author : Daniel J. Boorstin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307819161
First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of “pseudo-events”—events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported—and the contemporary definition of celebrity as “a person who is known for his well-knownness.” Since then Daniel J. Boorstin’s prophetic vision of an America inundated by its own illusions has become an essential resource for any reader who wants to distinguish the manifold deceptions of our culture from its few enduring truths.
Author : Colita Nichols Fairfax
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476678085
The State of Virginia recognizes the 1619 landing of Africans at Point Comfort (present-day Hampton) as a complicated beginning. This collection of new essays reckons with this historical fact, with discussions of the impacts 400 years later. Chapters cover different perspectives about the "20 and odd" who landed, offering insights into how enslavement continues to affect the lives of their descendants. The often overlooked experiences of women in enslavement are discussed.
Author : Donald R. Wright
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119133872
What are the origins of slavery and race-based prejudice in the mainland American colonies? How did the Atlantic slave trade operate to supply African labor to colonial America? How did African-American culture form and evolve? How did the American Revolution affect men and women of African descent? Previous editions of this work depicted African-Americans in the American mainland colonies as their contemporaries saw them: as persons from one of the four continents who interacted economically, socially, and politically in a vast, complex Atlantic world. It showed how the society that resulted in colonial America reflected the mix of Atlantic cultures and that a group of these people eventually used European ideas to support creation of a favorable situation for those largely of European descent, omitting Africans, who constituted their primary labor force. In this fourth edition of African Americans in the Colonial Era: From African Origins through the American Revolution, acclaimed scholar Donald R. Wright offers new interpretations to provide a clear understanding of the Atlantic slave trade and the nature of the early African-American experience. This revised edition incorporates the latest data, a fresh Atlantic perspective, and an updated bibliographical essay to thoroughly explore African-Americans’ African origins, their experience crossing the Atlantic, and their existence in colonial America in a broadened, more nuanced way.
Author : Daniel J. Boorstin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780307773555
An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him. In the compendious history, Boorstin not only traces man's insatiable need to know, but also the obstacles to discovery and the illusion that knowledge can also put in our way. Covering time, the earth and the seas, nature and society, he gathers and analyzes stories of the man's profound quest to understand his world and the cosmos.
Author : Daniel J. Boorstin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1974-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0394710118
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A study of the last 100 years of American history.
Author : Daniel J. Boorstin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1958-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226064918
How much of our political tradition can be absorbed and used by other peoples? Daniel Boorstin's answer to this question has been chosen by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for representation in American Panorama as one of the 350 books, old and new, most descriptive of life in the United States. He describes the uniqueness of American thought and explains, after a close look at the American past, why we have not produced and are not likely to produce grand political theories or successful propaganda. He also suggests what our attitudes must be toward ourselves and other countries if we are to preserve our institutions and help others to improve theirs. ". . . a fresh and, on the whole, valid interpretation of American political life."—Reinhold Niebuhr, New Leader
Author : Jay P. Dolan
Publisher : Image
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307553898
Catholicism has had a profound and lasting influence on the shape, the meaning, and the course of American history. Now, in the first book to reflect the new communal and social awakening which emerged from Vatican Council II, here is a vibrant and compelling history of the American Catholic experience—one that will surely become the standard volume for this decade, and decades to come. Spanning nearly five hundred years, the narrative eloquently describes the Catholic experience from the arrival of Columbus and the other European explorers to the present day. It sheds fascinating new light on the work of the first vanguard of missionaries, and on the religious struggles and tensions of the early settlers. We watch Catholicism as it spread across the New World, and see how it transformed—and was transformed by—the land and its people. We follow the evolution of the urban ethnic communities and learn about the vital contributions of the immigrant church to Catholicism. And finally, we share in the controversy of the modern church and the extraordinary changes in the Catholic consciousness as it comes to grips with such contemporary social and theological issues as war and peace and the arms race, materialism, birth control and abortion, social justice, civil rights, religious freedom, the ordination of women, and married clergy. The American Catholic Experience is not just the history of an institution, but a chronicle of the dreams and aspirations, the crises and faith, of a thriving, ever-evolving religious community. It provides a penetrating and deeply thoughtful look at an experience as diverse, as exciting, and as powerful as America itself.