Hanging Together

Unity and Diversity in American Culture

By: John Higham, Carl J. Guarneri (Editor)

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Hardcover | 10 June 2001 | Edition Number 1

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This book presents three decades of writings by one of America's most distinguished historians. John Higham, renowned for his influential works on immigration, ethnicity, political symbolism, and the writing of history, here traces the changing contours of American culture since its beginnings, focusing on the ways that an extraordinarily mobile society has allowed divergent ethnic, class, and ideological groups to "hang together" as Americans.

The book includes classic essays by Higham and more recent writings, some of which have been substantially revised for this publication. Topics range widely from the evolution of American national symbols and the fate of our national character to new perspectives on the New Deal, on other major turning points, and on changes in race relations after major American wars. Yet they are unified by an underlying theme: that a heterogeneous society and an inclusive national culture need each other.

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"This book brings together and makes available some of the most important work of one of America's greatest senior historians." George M. Fredrickson, Stanford University"

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Preface
Introduction
Tracing Unities
Hanging Together: Divergent Unities in American History	p. 3
America in Person: The Evolution of National Symbols	p. 23
Rediscovering the Pragmatic American	p. 57
Specialization in a Democracy	p. 67
Integrating Diversity
Integrating America: The Problem of Assimilation at the Turn of the Century	p. 85
Immigration and American Mythology	p. 101
Pluralistic Integration as an American Model	p. 111
Three Postwar Reconstructions	p. 135
Turning Points
From Boundlessness to Consolidation: The Transformation of American Culture, 1848-1860	p. 149
America's Utopian Prophets	p. 167
The Reorientation of American Culture in the 1890s	p. 173
The Long Road to the New Deal	p. 199
Prospects
Multiculturalism and Universalism: A History and Critique	p. 221
The Future of American History	p. 241
Notes	p. 259
Index	p. 307
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