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(0)Colin Woodard
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Language
English
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Description
An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red state-blue state myth.
North America was settled by people with distinct religious, political, and ethnographic characteristics, creating regional cultures that have been at odds with one another ever since. Subsequent immigrants didn't confront or assimilate into an "American" or "Canadian" culture, but rather into one of the eleven distinct regional ones...
3) American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good
Author
Language
English
Description
The struggle between individualism and the good of the community as a whole has been the basis of every major disagreement in our history, from the debates at the Constitutional Convention and in the run up to the Civil War to the fights surrounding the agenda of the Progressives, the New Deal, the civil rights movement, and the Tea Party. In American Character, Colin Woodard traces these two key strands in American politics through the four centuries...
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xii, 417 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The author of American Nations returns to the historical study of a fractured America by examining how a myth of national unity was created and fought over in the nineteenth century--a myth that continues to affect us today. Union tells the story of how the myth of our national origins, identity, and purpose was intentionally created in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A small group of individuals--historians, political leaders, and...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (386 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's 1715 on the island of Santa Campana and the diabolical pirate Blackbeard reigns over a rogue nation of thieves, outlaws and miscreant sailors. An extraordinary action adventure where one can't be sure whether the pirates or the British crown are the villains.