Forging the American character.
By: Edited by James W. Hall.
Series: American problem studies
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: National characteristics, American.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: An introduction to national character, by T. L. Hartshorne.; value: Alexis de Tocqueville and America, by A. de Tocqueville.; value: The mental furniture of immigrants, by E. Eggleston.; value: The English dissenting tradition, by T. C. Hall.; value: The transplantation of culture to America, by D. R. Fox.; value: The inheritance of fundamental English qualities, by L. B. Wright.; value: Immigration and the reinforcement of the traditional, by O. Handlin.; value: Successive frontiers as catalyst, by F. J. Turner.; value: Extension of the frontier principle, by W. P. Webb.; value: Does land mold character? By C. N. Degler.; value: The frontier social environment as key, by R. A. Billington.; value: Abundance, by D. Potter.; value: Rejection of authority, by G. Gorer.; value: The idea of progress, by A. A. Ekirch, Jr.; value: The taking of risks, by O. Handlin.; value: Mobile Americans, by G. W. Pierson.