Made in America : a social history of American culture and character / Claude S. Fischer.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2010.Description: x, 511 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780226251431 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0226251438 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E 169.1 .F538 2010
Contents:
Preface and acknowledgments -- 1. The stories we tell -- 2. Security -- 3. Goods -- 4. Groups -- 5. Public spaces -- 6. Mentality -- 7. Closing -- Notes -- List of abbreviations -- Works cited -- Index.
Summary: Our nation began with the simple phrase, "We the People." But who were and are "We"? Who were "We" in 1776, in 1865, or 1968, and is there any continuity in character between the "We" of those years and the nearly 300 million people living in the radically different America of today? With this work, the author draws on decades of historical, psychological, and social research to answer that question by tracking the evolution of American character and culture over three centuries. He explodes myths such as that contemporary Americans are more mobile and less religious than their ancestors.
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Book Storms Research Center Main Collection E 169.1 .F538 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 98640351

Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-458) and index.

Preface and acknowledgments -- 1. The stories we tell -- 2. Security -- 3. Goods -- 4. Groups -- 5. Public spaces -- 6. Mentality -- 7. Closing -- Notes -- List of abbreviations -- Works cited -- Index.

Our nation began with the simple phrase, "We the People." But who were and are "We"? Who were "We" in 1776, in 1865, or 1968, and is there any continuity in character between the "We" of those years and the nearly 300 million people living in the radically different America of today? With this work, the author draws on decades of historical, psychological, and social research to answer that question by tracking the evolution of American character and culture over three centuries. He explodes myths such as that contemporary Americans are more mobile and less religious than their ancestors.

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