The Organization of American Culture, 1700-1900: Private Institutions, Elites, and the Origins of American Nationality

by Peter Dobkin Hall and Peter Hall

Book Overview

Nationality, argues Peter Hall, did not follow directly from the colonists' declatation of independence from England, nor from the political union of the states under the Constitution of 1789. It was, rather, the product of organizations which socialized individuals to a national outlook. These institutions were the private corportions which Americans used after 1790 to carry on their central activities of production.
The book is in three parts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814734251
• ISBN13: 9780814734254
• Release Date: February 1984
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"