Made in America
Subtitle: an informal history of the English language in the United States
By: Bill Bryson
Edition: 1st Avon Books trade print
Publisher: Avon Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 417
Subjects: Americanisms; English language; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-394) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Mayflower and before; title: Becoming Americans; title: A "democrataical phrenzy": America in the age of revolution; title: Making a nation; title: By the dawn's early light: forging a national identity; title: We're in the money: the age of invention; title: Names; title: "Manifest destiny": taming the West; title: The melting pot: immigration in America; title: When the going was good: travel in America; title: What's cooking? Eating in America; title: Democratizing luxury: shopping in America; title: Manners and other matters; title: The hard sell: advertising in America; title: The movies; title: The pursuit of pleasure: sport and play; title: Of bombs and bunkum: politics and war; title: Sex and other distractions; title: From Kitty Hawk to the jumbo jet; title: Welcome to the Space Age: the 1950s and beyond; title: American English today.