The Organization of American Culture, 1700-1900: Private Institutions, Elites, and the Origins of American Nationality 0814734251, 9780814734254

The Organization of American Culture, 1700-1900: Private Institutions, Elites, and the Origins of American Nationality 9780814773123

Nationality, argues Peter Hall, did not follow directly from the colonists' declatation of independence from Englan

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Canada and the Organization of American States

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Inventing American Exceptionalism: The Origins of American Adversarial Legal Culture, 1800-1877 9780300224849

A highly engaging account of the developments—not only legal, but also socioeconomic, political, and cultural—that gave

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Inventing American Exceptionalism: The Origins of American Adversarial Legal Culture, 1800-1877 0300222254, 978-0300222258

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The Feminization of American Culture

This modern classic by one of our leading scholars seeks to explain the values prevalent in today's mass culture by

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The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism 9780300137675

In this absorbing book, George McKenna ranges across the entire panorama of American history to track the development of

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Thomas Hutchinson and the Origins of the American Revolution 9780814738177

Rarely in American history has a political figure been so pilloried and despised as Thomas Hutchinson, Governor of Massa

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The Irish and the Origins of American Popular Culture 1138636754, 9781138636750

This book focuses on the intersection between the assimilation of the Irish into American life and the emergence of an A

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Democracy and the Origins of the American Regulatory State 9780300216318

Political scientist Samuel DeCanio examines how political elites used high levels of voter ignorance to create a new typ

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American Elites 9780300146196

This detailed and fascinating portrait of America's elite leaders is based on interviews with more than 1800 member

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