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Made in America : an informal history of the English language in the United States

Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: New York : Avon Books, ©1996.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 1st Avon Books trade printingView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Bill Bryson
ISBN: 0380713810 9780380713813
OCLC Number: 34415961
Description: xiv, 417 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: Bill Bryson.

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