The Americans : the colonial experience

Boorstin, Daniel J. (Daniel Joseph) 1914-2004 (Author).

Summary: Governor William Bradford, an eyewitness, reported the landing of the Mayflower passengers on the American shore in mid-November 1620. Never had a Promised Land looked more unpromising. But within a century and a half -- even before the American Revolution -- this forbidding scene had become one of the more "civill" parts of the world. The large outlines of a new civilization had been drawn. How did it happen?

Record details

ISBN: 0394705130
ISBN: 9780394705132
Physical Description: print
434 pages ; 21 cm.
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, ©1958.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Bk. 1. The vision and the reality -- bk. 2. Viewpoints and institutions -- bk. 3. Language and the printed world.