Americans
Subtitle: a collision of histories
By: Edward Countryman.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Group identity -- United States -- History; National characteristics, American; United States -- Civilization -- 19th century; United States -- Civilization -- To 1783
Other titles: Americans.
Description: In recent decades it has become fashionable to maintain that the experience of various American ethnic groups - whether African, Indian, or European - is the most significant. In this important social history, the noted scholar Edward Countryman shows, instead, why the very identity of "American" - forged by all these people - is what matters.

This is a scintillating analysis of what becoming American means in historical terms. Edward Countryman offers not one perspective of American history (and thus one identity) but all the perspectives that have contributed to our sense of nationality.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-281) and index.

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