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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Higham, John, 1920-
Contributors:	Guarneri, Carl, 1950-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2001.
Subjects and Genres:	Cultural pluralism > United States. Group identity > United States. National characteristics, American. Historiography > United States. United States > Race relations. United States > Ethnic relations. United States > Civilization.
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Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction
I : Tracing unities
Hanging together : divergent unities in American history ; America in person : the evolution of national symbols ; Rediscovering the pragmatic American
Specialization in a democracy
II : Integrating diversity
Integrating America : the problem of assimilation at the turn of the century ; Immigration and American mythology ; Pluralistic integration as an American model ; Three postwar reconstructions
III : Turning points
From boundlessness to consolidation : the transformation of American culture, 1848-1860 ; America's utopian prophets ; Reorientation of American culture in the 1890s ; Long road to the New Deal
IV : Prospects
Multiculturalism and universalism : a history and critique ; Future of American history.