Hanging together : unity and diversity in American culture / John Higham ; edited by Carl J. Guarneri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Higham, John, 1920-2003.

Contributor:

Guarneri, Carl, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural pluralism--United States.

Cultural pluralism.

Group identity--United States.

Group identity.

National characteristics, American.

Historiography--United States.

Historiography.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

United States--Ethnic relations.

United States--Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book presents three decades of writings by one of America's most distinguished historians. John Higham, renowned for his influential works on immigration, ethnicity, political symbolism, and the writing of history, here traces the changing contours of American culture since its beginnings, focusing on the ways that an extraordinarily mobile society has allowed divergent ethnic, class, and ideological groups to "hang together" as Americans. The book includes classic essays by Higham and more recent writings, some of which have been substantially revised for this publication. Topics range widely from the evolution of American national symbols and the fate of our national character to new perspectives on the New Deal, on other major turning points, and on changes in race relations after major American wars. Yet they are unified by an underlying theme: that a heterogeneous society and an inclusive national culture need each other.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. Hanging Together

2. America in Person

3. Rediscovering the Pragmatic American [1986]

4. Specialization in a Democracy [1979]

5. Integrating America

6. Immigration and American Mythology [1991]

7. Pluralistic Integration as an American Model [1975]

8. Three Postwar Reconstructions [1997]

9. From Boundlessness to Consolidation

10. America's Utopian Prophets [1984]

11. The Reorientation of American Culture in the 1890's [1965]

12. The Long Road to the New Deal

13. Multiculturalism and Universalism: A History and Critique [1993]

14. The Future of American History [1994]

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-305) and index.

ISBN:

9786611730581

9781281730589

1281730580

9780300129823

0300129823

OCLC:

1024018241