Touching America's History : From the Pequot War through WWII /

Things you can see and touch can bring to mind the time when the items were made and used. In Touching America's History, Meredith Mason Brown uses twenty objects to summon up major developments in America's history. The objects range in date from a Pequot stone axe head probably made befo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Brown, Meredith M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Material culture.
Antiquities.
HISTORY > United States > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Culture materielle > États-Unis.
Material culture > United States.
United States.
États-Unis > Histoire.
États-Unis > Antiquites.
United States > History.
United States > Antiquities.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue : history through things you can touch
  • Axe head, adze head
  • A compass, a rifle, and the opening of the West
  • Yr Most obt Servt, G. Washington
  • Daguerreotype and sword
  • Shavings from a scaffold
  • Diaries from Indian Country
  • Travels of an English pistol
  • A court-martial in the Philippines
  • A medal from General Pershing
  • The czar of Halfaday Creek and Hitler's toilet bowl.

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