TY  - BOOK
AU  - Higham,John
AU  - Guarneri,Carl
TI  - Hanging together: unity and diversity in American culture 
SN  - 9780300129823
AV  - E184.A1 H488 2001eb
U1  - 305.8/00973 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - New Haven, Conn.
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Cultural pluralism
KW  - United States
KW  - Group identity
KW  - National characteristics, American
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Diversité culturelle
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Identité collective
KW  - Américains
KW  - Historiographie
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - Minority Studies
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - General
KW  - Civilization
KW  - fast
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Cultuurgeschiedenis
KW  - gtt
KW  - Relations raciales
KW  - Relations interethniques
KW  - Civilisation
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-305) and index; Preface -- Introduction -- I : Tracing unities -- Hanging together : divergent unities in American history ; America in person : the evolution of national symbols ; Rediscovering the pragmatic American -- Specialization in a democracy -- II : Integrating diversity -- Integrating America : the problem of assimilation at the turn of the century ; Immigration and American mythology ; Pluralistic integration as an American model ; Three postwar reconstructions -- III : Turning points -- From boundlessness to consolidation : the transformation of American culture, 1848-1860 ; America's utopian prophets ; Reorientation of American culture in the 1890s ; Long road to the New Deal -- IV : Prospects -- Multiculturalism and universalism : a history and critique ; Future of American history
N2  - How has America, with its many ethnic, class, and ideological divisions, allowed divergent groups to 'hang together' as Americans? This book explores the ways in which Americans have conceived of a national identity and demonstrates that an appreciation of America's kaleidoscopic diversity can be reconciled with an affirmation of its common national culture
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