Description: Good. B0006BVI2M GOOD READABLE CONDITION COVERS HAVE WEAR, NOTE WRITTEN BEHIND THE FRONT COVER, NO OTHER WRITINGS. (STOCK#: NOENN-BE4) read more
Description: Good. B0007DMVFC 1960 HARDCOVER NO DJ, SECOND EDITON REVISED, 1959 REPRINTED 1960 former library edition with the usual library stamps, markings, cardholder, read more
Edition: 3rd ed.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Knopf, New York
Date published: 1968
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. B009. xviii, 805, xxiv p. : illus., maps.; 24 1/2 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Maps. Includes bibliographies. read more
Description: Acceptable. "Second edition: -: Fair: -: Binding a little loose, spine faded and frayed at edges, otherwise in Good condition. : -: " read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date published: 1953
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First Edition (stated). Hard Cover. No dust jacket. Cover has mild shelfwear, bottom edges lightly rubbed, mild soiling-small spot on spine. Pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Binding is tight. Hinges are perfect. Very nice copy. read more
Edition: 20th Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, N. Y.
Date published: 1964
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall, Oblong. Early in the seventeenth century a few small groups of pioneers sought new homes on the Atlantic coastline of North America. read more
Description: Good in Good jacket. First Edition. 773 pp, w/b&w illust., inscrip. on front paste-down (blacked out), jacket has large tears. First Edition. read more
Description: NY, Knopf, 1955. A VG hardcover without the DJ. Size is a large 8vo. and there are 773pp. + index. There are over 30 illustrations, 23 maps and 7 tables. Red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. A clean, tight copy. read more
""What does it mean to be an American?," asks Henry Bamford Parkes. To answer that question, he takes us to the beginning of European exploration and discovery. he describes aspirations and motivations of the first settlers and how their experience in a new land molded and shaped their character and cultural assumptions. Parkes tells us that the civilization of America, due to this experience, developed unique traits. But the practical and action-oriented culture of America, while part of its great strength, also has brought dangerous liabilities. Intellectually, Americans have often been timid and derivative in their theory. This has led their intellectuals to try to understand their own nation and culture through the European linear model (left-right) and seek solutions to American dilemmas in either big business capitalism or big government socialism. Parkes shows, however, that the highest values and most distinctively and positively American traits come from what he calls "the agrarian tradition," which is explained by neither Marxism or capitalism. Democracy was in large part a result of abundant, cheap land, which reconciled economic freedom with equality of opportunity in 18th and early 19th century. Parkes explores the history of agrarian thought and attitudes from first discovery and settlement, through colonial times and the American Revolution, Jacksonian democracy and the Civil War, through industrialization and into the 20th century. He describes the conflict and contradiction in the American mind between the values of industrial capitalism and those of agrarianism in the early Republic, and how by the 20th century, American idealism lost touch with much of agrarianism, adopting much of the thinking and practice of European upper-class liberalism. Parkes frankly tells us that the agrarian economy of the past is gone. But he warns that the only way for America to maintain its unique character, trascend its contradictions, and live out its highest ideals wiil be to rediscover its agrarian tradition and apply it to industrial society in the 20th century. Parkes' message may seem anachronistic to some. But the new and vaunted ideology of the global economy and information age has failed to resolve the ideological wars initiated in the industrial age between labor and capital. Culture wars still bitterly divide Americans. The American land remains, permanent; and as other American agrarians, like Wendell Berry, have admonished it is this land-based tradition that holds the key to cultural unity and survival."
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