Table of Contents

PART ONE: THE UNRECORDED HUM OF IMPLICATION Prolegomenon Chapter 1: The Old World and the New, Pari Passu Chapter 2: The Quest for Legitimacy in Colonial America Chapter 3: Invertebrate America: The Problem of Unstable Pluralism Epilogism: Some Interconnections PART TWO: A STRANGE HYBRID, INDEED Prolegomenon Chapter 4: Biformity: A Frame of Reference Chapter 5: Conflict, Crisis, and Change: The Context of English Colonization Chapter 6: Contradictory Tendencies in Colonial America Epilogism: Some Comparisons PART THREE: THE IMPLICATIONS OF BIFORMITY Prolegomenon Chapter 7: Ambiguities of the American Revolution Chapter 8: Encrustations of Space and Time, circa 1825-1925 Chapter 9: The Contrapuntal Civilization Bibliographical Suggestions Index

About the Author

Michael Kammen is the Newton C. Farr Professor of American History and Culture, and Director, Society for the Humanities, at Cornell University. His book, People of Paradox: An Inquiry concerning the Origins of American Civilization received the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1973, and he is the author of "What Is the Good of History?" Selected Letters of Carl L. Becker, 1900-1945, and A Rope of Sand: The Colonial Agents, British Politics, and the American Revolution, both published by Cornell University Press.

Reviews

"A lively, wide-ranging book ... highly impressive... I wish I had written People of Paradox."-Marcus Cunliffe, New York Times Book Review "Puts forth an interpretation that all American historical scholars will have to take seriously as they prepare their own versions of American history."-Carl Bridenbaugh, Yale Review