AMERICA AS A CIVILIZATION VOL. 1

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by  LERNER, MAX

BY MAX LERNER

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MAX LERNER

AMERICA

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CIVILIZATION

Volume One

THE BASIC FRAME

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CONTENTS

FOREWORD ~
1. Heritage 1
1. The Sense of the Past
2, The Sources of the Heritage
4. The Slaying of the European Father
4- Why Was America a Success?
5. American History 4s Extended Genesis
6. Tradition and the Frame of Power
7. American Dynamsism

Il. The Idea of American Civilization 53
1. Figure in the Carpet
2, Is America a Civilization?
3. Archetypal Man of the West
4. American Exceptionatism
& National Character and
the Civilization Pattern
6, Single Key—or Polar Pattern?

IIL. People and Place 6
t. Is There an American Stock?
3, The Immigrant Experience
3. People in Motion
4 Natural Resources: the American Earth
5 Human Resources: Population Profile
6. The Sinews of Welfare:
Health, Food, Dwelling, Security

1p. The Wey of the Farmer
8, The Decline of the Small Town
City Lights and Shadows

10. The Suburban Revolution

at. Regions: the Fusion of People and Place

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