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Made in America
An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
Bryson, Bill
Publisher: Morrow, New York, USAYear Published: 1994
Pages: 418pp ISBN: 0-688-10312-X
Library of Congress Number: PE 2809.B79 1995 Dewey: 420'.973 -- dc20
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The Mayflower and Before
2. Becoming American
3. A 'Democratical Phrenzy': America in the Age of Revolution
4. Making a Nation
5. By the Dawn's Early Light" Forging a National Identity
6. We're in the Money: The Age of invention
7. Names
8. 'Manifest Destiny': Taming the West
9. The Melting Pot: Immigration in America
10. When the Going was Good: Travel in America
11. What's Cooking? Eating in America
12. Democratizing Luxury: Shopping in America
13. Manners and Other Matters
14. The Hard Sell: Advertising in America
15. The Movies
16. The Pursuit of Pleasure: Sport and Play
17. Of Bombs and Bunkum: Politics and War
18. Sex and Other Distractions
19. From Kitty Hawk to the Jumbo Jet
20. Welcome to the Space Age: The 1950s and Beyond
21. American English Today
Notes on Sources
Select Bibliography
Index
Subject Headings
- Aboriginal People
- Advertising
- American Studies
- Automobiles
- Baseball
- Behaviour
- Black History & Identity
- Brand Names
- Colonization of North America
- Cultural History
- Cultural Identity
- Culture
- Customs
- Education
- Education & Language
- English Language
- Identity
- Immigrants
- Immigration to United States
- Language
- Leisure Activities
- Movies
- Names
- Puritans
- Railway History
- Revolution
- Roads
- Shopping
- Speech & Language
- Spelling
- Sports
- Suburbs
- Television
- Travel
- United States of America
- U.S. History
- Word Origins
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