The first volume of the author's trilogy; the second of which is The Americans, the national experience; and the third of which is The Americans, the democratic experience.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-421) and index.
v. 1. The colonial experience -- v. 2. The national experience -- v. 3. The democratic experience.
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Governor William Bradford, an eyewitness, reported the landing of the Mayflower passengers on the American shore in mid-November 1620. Never had a Promised Land looked more unpromising. But within a century and a half -- even before the American Revolution -- this forbidding scene had become one of the more "civill" parts of the world. The large outlines of a new civilization had been drawn. How did it happen?
Americans.
National characteristics, American.
National characteristics, American.
Civilization.
Américains.
Caractéristiques nationales-- Américains.
Civilization.
National characteristics, American.
United States, Civilization, To 1783.
United States.
États-Unis, Civilisation, Jusqu'à 1783.
Etats-Unis, Civilisation, 1783-1865.
United States.
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Boorstin, Daniel J., (Daniel Joseph),1914-2004.
Daniel J. Boorstin Collection (Library of Congress)