United States -- Civilization books

Main currents in American thought: An interpretation of American literature from the beginnings to 1920

Vernon Louis Parrington

Parrington’s work is a sweeping scholarly survey of the ideas that have shaped American literature and public…

Civilization in the United States: An inquiry by thirty Americans

The volume is a collaborative effort by thirty American thinkers, each contributing a concise essay on a…

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s essay “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offences” is a polemical work of literary criticism that sets…

The Land of Contrasts: A Briton's View of His American Kin

James F. Muirhead

The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations

Harry Perry Robinson

The Conquest of a Continent; or, The Expansion of Races in America

Madison Grant

Appearances: Being Notes of Travel

G. Lowes Dickinson

The Spirit of America

Henry Van Dyke

Plato's American Republic: Done out of the original

Douglas Woodruff

What's What in America

Eugene V. Brewster

Looking forward: a dream of the United States of the Americas in 1999

Arthur Bird