From the beginning, what has given our culture its distinctive texture, pattern, and thrust, according to Michael Kammen, is the dynamic interaction of the imported and the indigenous. He shows how, during the years of colonization, some ideas and institutions were transferred virtually intact from Britain, while, simultaneously, others were being transformed in the New World. As he unravels the tangled origins of our culture, he makes us see that unresolved contradictions in the American experience have created our national style. Puritanical and hedonistic, idealistic and materialistic, peace-loving and war-mongering: these opposing strands go back to the genesis of our history.
- ISBN10 0195028031
- ISBN13 9780195028034
- Publish Date 25 September 1980
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 March 1994
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 352
- Language English