American Folklore (The Chicago History of American Civilization)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: January 15, 1961
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780226158594
Subjects: American history; Folklore; USA; Folklore & Mythology - Folklore; History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); Sociology; Social life and customs; United States
First sentence: A new nation, born suddenly in a seventeenth-century wilderness, possessed neither cultural nor folk traditions to call its own.