Download e-book for kindle: Culture and Customs of the United States [2 volumes] by Benjamin F. Shearer

American lifestyles and tradition is actually distinctive in that it was once born from many different cultures worldwide. whilst immigrants migrated to the Land of chance, they introduced with them items in their personal history: meals, religions, vacation trips, gala's, song, and artwork, simply to identify a number of. via time, those customs have built into what we now recognize as American lifestyles. discover how even in the US, a number of cultures and customs range from New England to the Midwest to the Pacific. become aware of what percentage religions are practiced all around the state, and the way each one sect differs in its occasion. learn the way gender performs a massive position in American society, and the way issues have replaced and improved long ago century. Readers will know about American holidays-religious, federal, or even these fabricated through Hallmark and tv! activities, rest actions, and model additionally play an enormous position in American tradition, as mentioned during this all-encompassing work.
Discover how American delicacies has developed from different cultures, corresponding to Italian, Greek, Mexican, chinese language, Indian, and West Africa, and the way every one area has its personal indigenous dishes, together with New England clam chowder, Southern jambalaya, and Mid-western lutefisk. modern and vintage literature can also be mentioned, besides the evolution of poetry. Readers will find out about the advance of mass media, in addition to the expansion of cinema and movies from the 1st silent movie to contemporary renowned blockbuster trilogy Pirates of the Caribbean. tune and dance also are mentioned intimately, masking the recent York Philharmonic to Woodstock. modern paintings and structure is mentioned in addition to kinds of housing throughout all of the areas of the U.S. This precise two-volume addition to the tradition and Customs of the area sequence supplies highschool scholars, either nationwide and overseas, the opportunity to check the U.S. from the surface in. The mosaic of yank tradition involves lifestyles during this expansive but special learn of what makes the USA a fancy mixture of customs and traditions.
Each quantity during this entire two-volume learn deals chapters that aspect how American lifestyles used to be born and the way it has grown, overlaying the background of customs in addition to how traditions at the moment are celebrated in New England, the South, the Midwest, the Pacific Northwest, and the Southwest, in addition to Alaska and Hawaii. Narrative chapters contain the following: