American Ways
Title | American Ways PDF eBook |
Author | Maryanne Kearny Datesman |
Publisher | Pearson Education ESL |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN | 9780131500860 |
Indhold: Introduction: Understanding the Culture of the United States; Traditional American Values and Beliefs; The American Religious Heritage; The Frontier Heritages; The Heritage of Abundance; The World of American Business; Government and Politics in the United States; Ethnic and Racial Diversity in the United States; Education in the United States; How Americans spend their leisure time; The American Family; American Values at the Crossroads;
American Ways, Third Edition
Title | American Ways, Third Edition PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Althen |
Publisher | Nicholas Brealey |
Total Pages | 312 |
Release | 2011-03-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1931930961 |
An exhaustive advice book for foreign visitors to the U.S. seeking to understand the motivations, attitudes, and actions of Americans.
American Ways
Title | American Ways PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Althen |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 196 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780933662681 |
Althen (former foreign student adviser, U. of Iowa) gives advice to foreign visitors to the U.S. that is intended to help them understand the motivations, attitudes, communication styles, and actions of Americans. Emphasizing the interpretation of observed behavior, he covers ways of reasoning and American ideas about politics, family life, education, religion, the media, social relationships, racial and ethnic diversity, male-female relationships, sports and recreation, driving, shopping, personal hygiene, and organizational and public behavior. Over-generalization is an understandable danger in such a work as this, but Althen does make an effort to emphasize that there are variations among Americans, while he concentrates on the similarities. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
How America Eats
Title | How America Eats PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Jensen Wallach |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 259 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Cooking |
ISBN | 1442208740 |
How America Eats: A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture tells the story of America by examining American eating habits, and illustrates the many ways in which competing cultures, conquests and cuisines have helped form America's identity, and have helped define what it means to be American.
American Schism
Title | American Schism PDF eBook |
Author | Seth David Radwell |
Publisher | Greenleaf Book Group |
Total Pages | 594 |
Release | 2021-06-29 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1626348626 |
An enlightened exploration of history to unite a deeply divided America The political dialogue in America has collapsed. Raw and bitter emotions such as anger and resentment have crowded out any logical debate. In this investigative tracing of our nation’s divergent roots, author Seth David Radwell explains that only reasoned analysis and historical perspective can act as salves for the irrational political discourse that is raging at present. Two disparate Americas have always coexisted, and Radwell discovered that the surprising origin of these dual Americas was not an Enlightenment, but two distinct Enlightenments that have been fiercely competing since the founding of our country. Radwell argues that it is only by embracing Enlightenment principles that we can build a civilized, progressive, and tolerant society. American Schism reveals • the roots of the rifts in America since its founding and what is really dividing red and blue America; • the core issues that underlie all of today’s bickering; • a detailed, effective plan to move forward, commencing what will be a long process of repair and reconciliation. Seth David Radwell changes the nature of the political debate by fighting unreason with reason, allowing Americans to firmly ground their differing points of view in rationality.
American Exceptionalism
Title | American Exceptionalism PDF eBook |
Author | Volker Depkat |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 305 |
Release | 2021-11-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 153810119X |
The idea that America is exceptional, whether because of its founding creed, natural abundance, or Protestant origins, has been the subject of fierce debate going back to the founding. Rather than argue for one side or the other, Volker Depkat explores the diverse ways in which Americans have described their country as exceptional. Describing how narratives of exceptionalism have never been a purely American affair, Depkat shows how, for example, European, African, and Asian immigrants projected their own dreams and nightmares onto the American screen, contributing to the intellectual construction of America. In fact, the different groups living in America have described American exceptionalism in such differing terms that there hardly ever was a shared understanding as to what these exceptional experiences were and how to interpret them. What has unified the disparate exceptionalist narratives, Depkat explains, is their insistence on America's universalist and future-oriented way of life. In engaging and lucid prose, Depkat offers general readers and students of American history an invaluable lens through which they can evaluate for themselves the merits of the many ways in which Americans have understood their country as exceptional.
Problems of Plenty
Title | Problems of Plenty PDF eBook |
Author | R. Douglas Hurt |
Publisher | Ivan R. Dee Publisher |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
A compact narrative history of American agriculture over the last century, emphasizing the farmer's growing reliance on the federal government.