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• Civilization -- 19th century

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• The Times of Melville and Whitman (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1947), by Van Wyck Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tales and Sketches for the Fireside, by the Best American Authors: Selected from Putnam's magazine (New York: A. Dowling, 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Examined Life: Family, Community, Work in American Literature (Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, c1989), by Jim Wayne Miller (PDF at appstate.edu)
• Re-Forging America: The Story of Our Nationhood (New York and London: C. Scribner's Sons, 1927), by Lothrop Stoddard
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Rise of American Civilization (original edition of 2 volumes; New York: Macmillan, 1927), by Charles A. Beard and Mary Ritter Beard, illust. by Wilfred Jones
  • Volume I (The Agricultural Era): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume II (The Industrial Era): page images at HathiTrust
• American Contributions to Civilization, and Other Essays and Addresses (New York: The Century Co., 1898), by Charles William Eliot
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Civilization in the United States: An Inquiry by Thirty Americans (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1922), ed. by Harold Stearns (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Our America (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), by Waldo David Frank (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts on the Future Civil Policy of America (1866 edition), by John William Draper (page images at MOA)
• Thoughts on the Future Civil Policy of America (1875 edition), by John William Draper (page images at MOA)
• If Marx Were to Return (ca. 1965), by Adolf A. Berle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The American Cause (Chicago: H. Regnery Co., 1957), by Russell Kirk (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Golden Day: A Study in American Literature and Culture (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926), by Lewis Mumford (page images at HathiTrust)
• America Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat, by Wu Tingfang (Gutenberg text)
• Atlantis: America and the Future (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co.; New York: E. P. Dutton, ca. 1925), by J. F. C. Fuller
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Confessions of a Barbarian (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1910), by George Sylvester Viereck
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Looking Forward: A Dream of the United States of the Americas in 1999 (Utica, NY: Press of L. C. Childs and Son, c1899), by Arthur Bird
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Conquest of a Continent: or, The Expansion of Races in America (New York and London: C. Scribner's Sons, 1933), by Madison Grant, contrib. by Henry Fairfield Osborn
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Letters and Leadership (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1918), by Van Wyck Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
• America Strikes Back: A Record of Contrasts (New York: I. Washburn, c1935), by Gustavus Myers (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Romance of Real Life: Charles Brockden Brown and the Origins of American Culture (originally published 1994; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Steven Watts (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• America: A Sketch of the Political, Social, and Religious Character of the United States of North America, in Two Lectures, by Philip Schaff (page images at MOA)

• These Days of Large Things: The Culture of Size in America, 1865-1930 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Michael Tavel Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Future in America: A Search After Realities (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1906), by H. G. Wells
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Mauve Decade: American Life at the End of the Nineteenth Century (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1926), by Thomas Beer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Our Common Country: Mutual Good Will in America (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, c1921), by Warren G. Harding, ed. by Frederick E. Schortemeier (multiple formats at archive.org)
• These Days of Large Things: The Culture of Size in America, 1865-1930 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Michael Tavel Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fallout: A Historian Reflects on America's Half-Century Encounter with Nuclear Weapons (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Paul S. Boyer (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Facts of American Life (Washington: Public Affairs Press, c1960), ed. by M. B. Schnapper (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Scar That Binds: American Culture and the Vietnam War (New York and London: New York University Press, c1998), by Keith Beattie (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Of a Fire on the Moon (as originally serialized in Life Magazine in 1969 and 1970), by Norman Mailer
  • Part I (A Fire on the Moon): page images at Google
  • Part II (The Psychology of Astronauts): page images at Google
  • Part III (A Dream of the Future's Face): page images at Google

• The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future, by Theodore John Kaczynski (HTML at washingtonpost.com)

• Writers on America (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2002), ed. by George Clack (PDF at state.gov)
• The Society I Live in is Mine (New York: Horizon Press, c1962), by Paul Goodman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reflections on America, by Jacques Maritain (HTML at Notre Dame)
• Fifteen Jugglers, Five Believers: Literary Politics and the Poetics of American Social Movements (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Thomas Vernon Reed (HTML at UC Press)
• Addresses Upon the American Road (8 volumes; 1938-1961), by Herbert Hoover (PDF files (with other writings) at archives.gov)

• Go East, Young Man: Imagining the American West as the Orient (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2011), by Richard V. Francaviglia
  • multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE
  • PDF files with commentary at JSTOR
• Oriental Shadows: The Presence of the East in Early American Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Jim Egan (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture, 1776-1876, by John Rogers Haddad (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)

• Encyclopedia of American Studies (free online edition), ed. by Simon J. Bronner (illustrated HTML at jhu.edu)

• The Transit of Civilization from England to America in the Seventeenth Century (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1901), by Edward Eggleston (multiple formats at Indiana)

• American Heritage (partial serial archives)
• American Studies (partial serial archives)
• Midcontinent American Studies Journal (full serial archives)
• Journal of the Central Mississippi Valley American Studies Association (full serial archives)
• The Baffler (1988-) (full serial archives)
• The Century Magazine (partial serial archives)

• The Strategy of Culture (1952), by Harold A. Innis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• An Empire Nowhere: England, America, and Literature from Utopia to The Tempest (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Jeffrey Knapp (HTML at UC Press)

• Seducing the French: The Dilemma of Americanization (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Richard F. Kuisel (HTML at UC Press)

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