| Edition |
1st SR books ed. |
| Description |
xxxvii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
American visions ; no. 4 |
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American visions (Wilmington, Del.) ; no. 4.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-369). |
| Contents |
America as a new world. How America was discovered / Handsome Lake -- The tempest / William Shakespeare -- A model of Christian charity / John Winthrop -- Engel v. Vitale / U.S. Supreme Court -- Letter III from an American farmer / J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur -- To the United States / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Paddy's lament : Irish-American folksong -- The spirit of capitalism / Max Weber -- On being an American / H.L. Mencken. |
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America as an independent nation. Declaration of independence / Continental Congress -- Declaration of sentiments / Woman's Rights Convention -- Independence Day speech / John Wannuaucon Quinney -- The significance of the frontier in American history / Frederick Jackson Turner -- American progress / John Gast -- The spirit of the west / Edwin Howland Blashfield -- Vietnam's declaration of independence / Ho Chi Minh -- What to the slave is the Fourth of July? / Frederick Douglass. |
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America as a place to belong. Americanism and the foreign-born / Woodrow Wilson -- Objections answered / Alice Stone Blackwell -- Ain't I a woman? / Sojourner Truth -- Trans-national America / Randolph Bourne -- Americanism / American Legion -- Statue of Liberty / Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi -- Americans all! / Howard Chandler Christy -- The melting pot, Fourth of July parade -- Goddess of democracy -- Chinese protest Belgrade bombing -- Century readings / Fred Lewis Pattee -- The one-hundred percent American / Ralph Linton -- National brotherhood week / Tom Lehrer -- America / Claude McKay -- This land is your land / Woody Guthrie. |
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America as a land of the free. Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln -- Flag raising on Iwo Jima / Joe Rosenthal and Felix DeWeldon -- Manzanar Relocation Center / Dorothea Lange -- The American system / Herbert Hoover -- The four freedoms / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Freedom from want / Norman Rockwell -- Bowers v. Hardwick / U.S. Supreme Court -- Puerto Ricans / Langston Hughes -- Wrestling with the hard one / Ana Lydia Vega -- POPism / Andy Warhol -- Five coke bottles / Andy Warhol -- "Give and take," say I ; "Cheers" / Haddon Sundblom -- Publicity poster for A great wall : an American comedy -- Great castigation series : Coca-Cola / Wang Guangyi -- An Okie from Muskogee / Merle Haggard and Roy Burris -- Wasteland of the free / Iris DeMent -- Of our spiritual strivings / W.E.B. DuBois. |
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America as an empire. The utility of the union / Publius (Alexander Hamilton) -- The Monroe Doctrine / James Monroe -- The European colonization of America / Arthur de Gobineau -- The white man's burden / Rudyard Kipling -- Cast away illusions, prepare for struggle / Mao Tse-Tung -- U.S. and Mexican pastimes / Mexican Embassy -- Ugly American sightings -- Uncle Sam in Australia -- Uncle Sam welcomes Mexico -- Chinese pose as auto tourists near San Francisco -- U.S. tourist poses in Havana / Constantino Arias -- Letter to Americans / E.P. Thompson. |
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America as a culture. The American scholar / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Ralph Waldo Emerson : transcendental critic / Vernon L. Parrington -- Factors in American literary history / Norman Foerster -- Middletown faces both ways / Robert Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd -- Plainville social class / James West (Carl A. Withers) -- Cultural locations : positioning American studies in the great debate / Alice Kessler-Harris. |
| Subject |
United States -- Civilization -- Sources.
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United States -- Literary collections.
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United States -- Study and teaching.
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National characteristics, American -- History -- Sources.
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Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
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National characteristics, American. (OCoLC)fst01033342
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Education. (OCoLC)fst00902499
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Amerikanistik (DE-588)4142196-6
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Quelle (DE-588)4135952-5
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Literary collections. (OCoLC)fst01423811
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Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
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| Added Author |
Horwitz, Richard P., 1949-
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| ISBN |
0842028293 |
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9780842028295 |
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0842028285 |
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9780842028288 |
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