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A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
October 2011
On Sale: September 29, 2011
384 pages
ISBN: 0670022969
EAN: 9780670022960
Kindle: B0052RDIZA
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Non-Fiction
An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival
cultural regions that explodes the red state-blue state
myth. North America was settled by people with
distinct religious, political, and ethnographic
characteristics, creating regional cultures that have been
at odds with one another ever since. Subsequent immigrants
didn't confront or assimilate into an "American" or
"Canadian" culture, but rather into one of the eleven
distinct regional ones that spread over the continent each
staking out mutually exclusive territory. In
American Nations, Colin Woodard leads us on a journey
through the history of our fractured continent, and the
rivalries and alliances between its component nations, which
conform to neither state nor international boundaries. He
illustrates and explains why "American" values vary sharply
from one region to another. Woodard reveals how
intranational differences have played a pivotal role at
every point in the continent's history, from the American
Revolution and the Civil War to the tumultuous sixties and
the "blue county/red county" maps of recent presidential
elections. American Nations is a revolutionary and
revelatory take on America's myriad identities and how the
conflicts between them have shaped our past and are molding
our future.
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