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On Creating a Usable Culture: Margaret Mead and the Emergence of American Cosmopolitanism

On Creating a Usable Culture: Margaret Mead and the Emergence of American Cosmopolitanism Get access

Maureen A. Molloy
Published online: 17 November 2016
Published in print: 20 February 2008
... influenced by the debates concerning the forging of a distinctive American culture that began around 1911 with the publication of George Santayana's The Genteel Tradition. The creation of a national culture would solve the problems of alienation and provincialism and establish a place...