People of paradox; an inquiry concerning the origins of American civilization, by Michael Kammen.
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Vintage Books
[1973, ℗♭1972]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The unrecorded hum of implication : The old world and the new, Pari Passu ; The quest for legitimacy in colonial America ; Invertebrate America: the problem of unstable pluralism ; Epilogism: some interconnections
- 2. A strange hybrid, indeed : Biformity: a frame of reference ; Conflict, crisis, and change: the context of English colonization ; Contradictory tendencies in colonial America ; Epilogism: some comparisons
- 3. The implications of biformity : Ambiguities of the American Revolution ; Encrustations of space and time, circa 1825-1925 ; The contrapuntal civilization.