People of paradox ; an inquiry concerning the origins of American civilization.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kammen, Michael G.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Knopf, 1972.
Edition:[First edition].
Series:Borzoi books
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Table of Contents:
  • The Old World and the New, Paru Passu
  • The quest for legitimacy in colonial America
  • Invertebrate America: the problem of unstable pluralism
  • Biformity: a frame of reference
  • Conflict, crisis, and change: the context of English colonization
  • Contradictory tendencies in colonial America
  • Ambiguities of the American Revolution
  • Encrustations of space and time, circa 1825-1925
  • The contraptual civilization.