Download or read book The Organization of American Culture, 1700-1900 written by Peter Dobkin Hall and published by New York : New York University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nationality, argues Peter Hall, did not follow directly from the colonists' declaration of independence from England, nor from the political union of the states under the Constitution of 1789. It was, rather, the product of organizations which socialized individuals to a national outlook.