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Heartless immensity : literature, culture, and geography in antebellum America /
"As the size of the United States more than doubled during the first half of the nineteenth century, a powerful current of anxiety ran alongside the well-documented optimism about national expansion. Heartless Immensity tells the story of how Americans made sense of their country's constan...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- An empire in denial
- Imagining national form
- Mapping and measuring with Ahab and Wilkes
- From Salt Lake to Walden Pond
- Word, image, and national geography
- Views from the edge of the empire
- Body size and the body politic
- Geography, pedagogy, and race.