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Almost Chosen People : Oblique Biographies in the American Grain /
For a quarter of a century, Michael Zuckerman has been provoking - and sometimes almost seducing - his fellow historians to rethink their most cherished assumptions about the American past. Often he starts from a familiar figure or a hallowed interpretation. Always he disguises the familiar, hollows...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
1993.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The fabrication of identity in early America
- The social context of Democracy in Massachusetts
- Pilgrims in the wilderness: Community, modernity, and the maypole at Merry Mount
- The family life of William Byrd
- The selling of the self: From Franklin to Barnum
- The power of blackness: Thomas Jefferson and the revolution in ST. Domingue
- The nursery tales of Horatio Alger
- Faith, hope, not much charity: The optimistic epistemology of Lewis Mumford
- DR. Spock: The confidence man
- Ronald Reagan, Charles Beard, and the Constitution: The uses of enchantment.