The Americans
Subtitle: the colonial experience
By: by Daniel J. Boorstin
Series: Caravelle edition
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1958
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 434
Subjects: American National characteristics; Civilization; History; Intellectual life
Description: Governor William Bradford, an eyewitness, reported the landing of the Mayflower passengers on the American shore in mid-November 1620. Never had a Promised Land looked more unpromising. But within a century and a half -- even before the American Revolution -- this forbidding scene had become one of the more "civill" parts of the world. The large outlines of a new civilization had been drawn. How did it happen?
Notes: The first volume of the author's trilogy; the second of which is The Americans, the national experience; and the third of which is The Americans, the democratic experience.

Includes bibliography and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 8. New world medicine; title: ch. 34 Nature-healing and simple remedies; title: ch. 35 Focus on the community; title: ch. 36 The general practitioner; title: ch. 37 Learning from experience.