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Writing about the Merovingians in the Early United States

In a young American republic seeking to define itself in relation to European cultural and political models past and present, it was assumed that the history of Europe?s peoples could be tracked across time over the longue duree. From this perspective, even the barbarous long-haired kings of the dis...

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Autor principal: HALFOND, GREGORY I.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [S.l.] : ARC HUMANITIES PR, 2023.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • COVER
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Sources of Knowledge
  • Chapter 1. American Writers and Merovingian Historiography
  • Chapter 2. Schoolbooks and the Teaching of Merovingian History
  • Part II. Locating Meaning in Merovingian History
  • Chapter 3. National Character and Historical Parallelism in a Revolutionary Age
  • Chapter 4. Adjudicating Political Legitimacy in the Early American Republic 1790-1816)
  • Chapter 5. Early Medieval Unfreedom and the Debate over Slavery (1840-1860)
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index