Made in America : an informal history of the English language in the United States / Bill Bryson.
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TextPublication details: N.Y. : Perennial, c1995.Edition: First Avon Books trade printingDescription: xii, 417 pages . ; 21 cmISBN: - 0380713810
- 9780380713813
- 420/.973 20
- PE2809 .B79 1995
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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.
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