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American Culture comprises fifteen essays looking at the familiar and the less familiar in American society: urbanites in Pittsburgh and Indianapolis, rural communities in the American West, Hispanics in Wisconsin, Samoans in California, the Amish, and the utopian religious communities of the Shakers and Oneida. The essays address a wide range of topics and a spectrum of occupations-miners, whalers, farmers, factory workers, physicians and nurses-to consider such questions as why some religious
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Leonard Plotnicov, editor
- Publisher
- Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press in cooperation with Ethnology
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780822960928
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Science, Sociology, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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