People of paradox; an inquiry concerning the origins of American civilization / by Michael Kammen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kammen, Michael.

Contributor:

Aulicino, Christine.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, American.

United States--Civilization--To 1783.

United States.

Civilization.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, xvii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 316, xii pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Manufacture:

Kingsport, Tennessee : Composed, printed, and bound by Kingsport Press.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf : [Distributed by Random House, Inc.], 1972.

Contents:

Part One: The Unrecorded Hum of Implication. Prolegomenon. The Old World and the New, Pari Passu; The quest for legitimacy in Colonial America; Invertebrate America: the problem of unstable pluralism; Epilogism: some interconnections

Part Two: A Strange Hybrid, Indeed. Prolegomenon. Biformity: a frame of reference; Conflict, crisis, and change: the context of English colonization; Contradictory tendencies in Colonial America. Epilogism: some comparisons

Part Three: The Implications of Biformity. Prolegomenon; Ambiguities of the American Revolution; Encrustations of space and time, circa 1825-1925; The contrapuntal civilization.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."

"First Edition."

"The text of this book is set in Monticello, a Linotype revival of the original Binny & Ronaldson Roman No. I, cut by Archibald Binny and cast in 1796 by that Philadelphia type foundry."--A Note on the Text.

"Typography and binding design by Christine Aulicino."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-316) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1972".

ISBN:

0394460774

OCLC:

266928