The Development of an American Culture

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The Development of an American Culture is written by Stanley Coben and published by Prentice Hall. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0132072661 (ISBN 10) and 9780132072663 (ISBN 13).

"Some of the outstanding scholars in the field of American culture have contributed to this new collection of original essays. Each chapter represents the author's scholarly approach to a particular problem in American cultural history, yet the essays, as a whole, achieve unity through their chronological order and common themes. Although not a complete history of American culture, this book is noteworthy for the important trends in American culture that it discusses. The editors Coben and Ratner explain this significance in their introduction to the essays: "Our authors have not attempted to provide a comprehensive survey of the national culture or cultures in the period. They have tried rather to explore periods during which important aspects of American culture became significant -or at least obvious-concentrating usually on the groups most involved in these changes." Beginning with a discussion of the European outposts of the mid-seventeenth century, the essayists go on to examine popular symbols connected with the American revolution, the reforms instituted during the early 19th century, the political speeches and essays of 1820-1850, the Southern subcultures of the mid-nineteenth century, the progressive spirit of the early twentieth century, the intellectual crisis of the 1920's, the cultural mood of acquiescence in the 1930's, and finally the state of culture in contemporary America."--Publisher