TY  - BOOK
AU  - Perry,Lewis
TI  - Boats against the current: American culture between revolution and modernity, 1820-1860 
SN  - 0195060911
AV  - E165 .P47 1993
U1  - 911 14
PY  - 1993///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Civilization
KW  - fast‰0(OCoLC)fst00862898
KW  - Cultuurgeschiedenis
KW  - gtt
KW  - United States
KW  - 1783-1865
KW  - Lịch sử Mỹ
KW  - Nội chiến
KW  - Thời kỳ 1783-1865
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-321) and index; aI. Nashville. 1. Contrasts. 2. A New Way of Life. 3. The Hero and His Roles. 4. A Vagabond's View of Civilization -- II. The Dead Past. 5. Looking for Connections. 6. Choosing a Past. 7. Holding onto History. 8. Anti-History -- III. Travelers. 9. Ruins and Stumps. 10. Tocqueville: Wilderness and Civilization. 11. Bremer: Home and Citizenship. 12. The Opening of the American Mind. 13. Ambiguous Argonaut -- IV. Life as a Masquerade. 14. City of Unwork. 15. Excursion. 16. Specimens of Equivoke. 17. On the Road. 18. Confidence and Sincerity. 19. Emerson on the World of Shows -- V. Modernity. 20. Against the Current. 21. A Step Toward Modernity. 22. The Experience of Change -- Epilogue: Retelling the Story
ER  -