TO THE READER. The search for American character. Building a nation. America’s natural landscapes. FROM IMMIGRATION TO ACCULTURATION. The frontier family: dislocation and the American experience. A consonance of towns. Urban American. CULTURAL REGIONS OF AMERICA. Expressions of American culture. American manners. The artlessness of American culture. A NEW ARCHITECTURE, YET OLD. Literature and values: the American Crusoe and the idea of the west. Entertainment and the mass media. Sports and American culture. SOCIETY AND VALUES. Individualism and equality in the United States. Continuity and change in the American family. Women and American society. STATUS AND SOCIAL CLASS IN AMERICA. The American system of education. Varieties of American thought. Religion in America. AMERICANS, EXPLORATIONS, AND THE CULTURE OF SCIENCE. American philosophy. Civil disobedience in American political thought. The courts and the law. REFORM AND SOCIAL CHANGE.

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