The Rites of Assent: Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America by Sacvan Bercovitch

The Rites of Assent: Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America

Sacvan Bercovitch

432 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The Rites of Assent examines the cultural strategies through which 'America' served as a vehicle simultaneously for diversity and cohesion, fusion and fragmentation. Taking an ethnographic, cross-cultural approach, The Rites of Assent traces the m...

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