6 edition of Americans, the colonial experience found in the catalog.
Published
1964
by Vintage Books in New York
.
Written in English
Edition Notes
| Statement | by Daniel J. Boorstin. |
| Series | A Caravelle edition |
| Contributions | Daniel J. Boorstin Collection (Library of Congress) |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | E162 .B68 1964 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | 434 p. ; |
| Number of Pages | 434 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL5257044M |
| ISBN 10 | 0394705130 |
| LC Control Number | 75330427 |
In this first installment of his groundbreaking trilogy, The Americans, Daniel Boorstin explores the foundations of American institutions and the American psyche. A history not of famous men, wars and negotiations, but of ideas, cultural formations and the materials of everyday life, The Colonial Experience challenges us to think differently. His book, The Americans: The Colonial Experience () won the Bancroft Prize for best book on history. The Society of American Historians awarded Boorstin the Francis Parkman Prize for The Americans: The National Experience (). Boorstin was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure, First Class, by the Japanese government in Alma mater: Harvard College, Balliol College, Oxford, .
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The Americans: The Colonial Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Paperback. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend About The Americans: The National Experience. This second volume in “The Americans” trilogy deals with the crucial period of American history from the Revolution to the Civil War. Here we meet the people who shaped, and were shaped by, the American experience—the versatile New Englanders, the Transients and the Boosters.
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The first book in a trilogy--and in many respects the best of the bunch--The Colonial Experience is an essential interpretation of how the habits of people who lived more than two centuries ago shaped the lives of modern Americans.
Americans Boorstin shows how an undiscovered continent shattered long-standing traditions and utopian fantasies with the hard demands of everyday life far from the sophisticated centers of European civilization Cited by: The first book in a trilogy--and in many respects the best of the Americans The Colonial Experience is an essential interpretation of how the habits of people who lived more than two centuries ago shaped the lives of modern Americans.
Boorstin shows how an undiscovered continent shattered long /5(38). The Colonial Experience is the first in his America Trilogy about American intellectual history; (he won the Bancroft History Prize for this first volume and the Pulitzer for his third volume in this series.)4/5(46). Daniel J.
Boorstin was the author of The Americans, a trilogy (The Colonial Experience, The National Experience, and The Democratic Experience) that won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize. Inhe received the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters for his lifetime contribution to literature.
Daniel J. Boorstin was the author of The Americans, a trilogy (The Colonial Experience; The National Experience, and The Democratic Experience) that won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize.
Inhe received the National Book Award for lifetime contribution to : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. About The Americans: The Colonial Experience.
Winner of the Bancroft Prize In this brilliantly original book, written for the general reader, the American past becomes richly meaningful to the present.
Daniel J. Boorstin was the author of The Americans, a trilogy (The Colonial Experience; The National Experience, and The Democratic Experience) that won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Bancroft. Very readable prose, his thesis on how the Colonial experience, specifically the practical nature of life as a colonist, created unique traditions across the span of society.
This experience informs the nature of Americans and our institutions. Very recommended. Boorstin outlines the fundamentals and development of American consumerism and capitalism ofFile Size: KB.
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21 Colonies come of Age - pg. Ch 2 Revolution and Early Republic. Daniel J. Boorstin was the author of The Americans, a trilogy (The Colonial Experience; The National Experience, and The Democratic Experience) that won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize.
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So the colonial experience was one of absorbing British models of government, the economy, and religion. Over the course of about years, American colonists practiced these rudimentary forms of self-government that eventually led to their decision to revolt against British rule.
The democratic experiment of American self-rule was therefore. : The Americans: The Colonial Experience: Dark blue cloth, dampstain on upper corner.
upper cover corners bumped. Considerable foxing of only slightly toned. "Withdrawn" library stamping on endpaper. Previous owner's name on endpaper, no markings in text. Page rough cut with an extra flap on bottom edge. Slight edgewear, binding solid.Compare book prices from overbooksellers.
Find The AMERICANS: The Colonial Experience (X) by Boorstin, Daniel J/5().Get this from a library! The Americans: the colonial experience. [Daniel J Boorstin] -- Governor William Bradford, an eyewitness, reported the landing of the Mayflower passengers on the American shore in mid-November Never had a Promised Land looked more unpromising.
But within a.
