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Author Boorstin, Daniel J. (Daniel Joseph), 1914-2004.

Title The Americans, the colonial experience.

Publication Info. New York : Random House [1958]

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 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  973.2 BOORSTIN    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  973 BOO    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  917.3 B724A    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  973.3 BOORSTIN    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  973 B644AMC    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  973.2 BOO    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  973.2 BOORSTIN    Check Shelf
Description 434 pages ; 24 cm
Note "First printing."
First volume in a trilogy; the second of which is the author's The Americans: the national experience; and the third of which is his The Americans: the democratic experience.
Contents The vision and the reality. A city upon a hill : the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay ; The inward plantation : the Quakers of Pennsylvania ; Victims of philanthropy : the settlers of Georgia ; Transplanters : the Virginians -- Viewpoints and institutions. An American frame of mind ; Educating the community ; The learned lose their monopolies ; New world medicine ; The limits of American science -- Language and the printed word. The new uniformity ; Culture without a capital ; A conservative press -- Warfare and diplomacy. A nation of minute men.
Subject United States -- Civilization -- To 1783.
National characteristics, American.
Added Author Daniel J. Boorstin Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Other Form: Online version: Boorstin, Daniel J. (Daniel Joseph), 1914-2004. Americans, the colonial experience. New York, Random House [1958] (OCoLC)562839902
Online version: Boorstin, Daniel J. (Daniel Joseph), 1914-2004. Americans, the colonial experience. New York, Random House [1958] (OCoLC)605354225
Online version: Boorstin, Daniel J. (Daniel Joseph), 1914-2004. Americans, the colonial experience. New York, Random House [1958] (OCoLC)610350569
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