Made in America :
Bryson, Bill.
Made in America : an informal history of the English language in the United States / Bill Bryson. - First Avon Books trade printing. - N.Y. : Perennial, c1995. - xii, 417 pages . ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-394) and index.
The Mayflower and before -- Becoming Americans -- A "democrataical phrenzy": America in the age of revolution -- Making a nation -- By the dawn's early light: forging a national identity -- We're in the money: the age of invention -- Names -- "Manifest destiny": taming the West -- The melting pot: immigration in America -- When the going was good: travel in America -- What's cooking? Eating in America -- Democratizing luxury: shopping in America -- Manners and other matters -- The hard sell: advertising in America -- The movies -- The pursuit of pleasure: sport and play -- Of bombs and bunkum: politics and war -- Sex and other distractions -- From Kitty Hawk to the jumbo jet -- Welcome to the Space Age: the 1950s and beyond -- American English today.
0380713810 9780380713813
94046451
English language .--History.--United States .
Americanisms .--History.
PE2809 / .B79 1995
420/.973
Made in America : an informal history of the English language in the United States / Bill Bryson. - First Avon Books trade printing. - N.Y. : Perennial, c1995. - xii, 417 pages . ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-394) and index.
The Mayflower and before -- Becoming Americans -- A "democrataical phrenzy": America in the age of revolution -- Making a nation -- By the dawn's early light: forging a national identity -- We're in the money: the age of invention -- Names -- "Manifest destiny": taming the West -- The melting pot: immigration in America -- When the going was good: travel in America -- What's cooking? Eating in America -- Democratizing luxury: shopping in America -- Manners and other matters -- The hard sell: advertising in America -- The movies -- The pursuit of pleasure: sport and play -- Of bombs and bunkum: politics and war -- Sex and other distractions -- From Kitty Hawk to the jumbo jet -- Welcome to the Space Age: the 1950s and beyond -- American English today.
0380713810 9780380713813
94046451
English language .--History.--United States .
Americanisms .--History.
PE2809 / .B79 1995
420/.973