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

American lifestyles and tradition is actually certain in that it was once born from many different cultures world wide. while immigrants migrated to the Land of chance, they introduced with them items in their personal background: meals, religions, vacations, gala's, track, and artwork, simply to identify a couple of. via time, those customs have constructed into what we now be aware of as American existence. discover how even in the US, numerous cultures and customs range from New England to the Midwest to the Pacific. realize what percentage religions are practiced all around the nation, and the way every one sect differs in its occasion. learn the way gender performs a major position in American society, and the way issues have replaced and stepped forward long ago century. Readers will find out about American holidays-religious, federal, or even these fabricated via Hallmark and tv! activities, rest actions, and type additionally play a tremendous function in American tradition, as mentioned during this all-encompassing work.
Discover how American food has advanced from different cultures, equivalent to Italian, Greek, Mexican, chinese language, Indian, and West Africa, and the way every one zone has its personal indigenous dishes, together with New England clam chowder, Southern jambalaya, and Mid-western lutefisk. modern and vintage literature is additionally mentioned, besides the evolution of poetry. Readers will find out about the advance of mass media, in addition to the expansion of cinema and flicks from the 1st silent movie to present day renowned blockbuster trilogy Pirates of the Caribbean. track and dance also are mentioned intimately, masking the recent York Philharmonic to Woodstock. modern paintings and structure is mentioned in addition to varieties of housing throughout all of the areas of the U.S. This distinctive two-volume addition to the tradition and Customs of the area sequence offers highschool scholars, either nationwide and foreign, the opportunity to envision the us from the skin in. The mosaic of yankee tradition involves lifestyles during this expansive but specified research of what makes the us a fancy mixture of customs and traditions.
Each quantity during this finished two-volume examine deals chapters that aspect how American existence used to be born and the way it has grown, masking the heritage of customs in addition to how traditions are actually celebrated in New England, the South, the Midwest, the Pacific Northwest, and the Southwest, in addition to Alaska and Hawaii. Narrative chapters comprise the following: