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_aPE2809 _b.B79 1994 |
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| 100 | 1 | _aBryson, Bill. | |
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_aMade in America : _h[electronic resource] _ban informal history of the English language in the United States / _cBill Bryson. |
| 250 | _a1st U.S. ed. | ||
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_aNew York : _bW. Morrow, _cc1994. |
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_axii, 417 p. ; _c24 cm. |
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| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 385-394) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aIntroduction (p.ix) -- The Mayflower and before (p.1) -- Becoming Americans (p.13) -- A "democratical phrenzy" : America in the age of revolution (p.30) -- Making a nation (p.48) -- By the dawn's early light : forging a national identity (p.64) -- We're in the money : the age of invention (p.82) -- Names (p.100) -- "Manifest destiny" : taming the West (p.119) -- The melting pot : immigration in America (p.134) -- When the going was good : travel in America (p.156) -- What's cooking? : eating in America (p.180) -- Democratizing luxury : shopping in America (p.206) -- Manners and other matters (p.219) -- The hard sell : advertising in America (p.235) -- The movies (p.248) -- The pursuit of pleasure : sport and play (p.263) -- Of bombs and bunkum : politics and war (p.287) -- Sex and other distractions (p.304) -- From Kitty Hawk to the jumbo jet (p.324) -- Welcome to the space age : the 1950s and beyond (p.334) -- American English today (p.352) -- Notes on sources (p.365) -- Select bibliography (p.385) -- Index (p.395). | |
| 520 | _aA linguistic history, told through anecdote and humor, of American speech and English word usage in the United States. | ||
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_aEnglish language _zUnited States _xHistory. |
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_aAmericanisms _xHistory. |
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_iOnline version: _aBryson, Bill. _tMade in America. _b1st U.S. ed. _dNew York : W. Morrow, c1994 _w(OCoLC)622641237 |
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_uhttp://www.archive.org/details/madeinamericain00brys _zFree eBook from the Internet Archive |
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