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The Spirit of 1976 : Commerce, Community, and the Politics of Commemoration /
The most important national commemoration of the twentieth century, the 1976 bicentennial celebration gave rise to a broad-ranging debate over how the American Revolution should be remembered and represented. Federal planners seeking an uncritical glorification of the nation s founding came up again...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The most important national commemoration of the twentieth century, the 1976 bicentennial celebration gave rise to a broad-ranging debate over how the American Revolution should be remembered and represented. Federal planners seeking an uncritical glorification of the nation s founding came up against an array of constituencies with other interests and objectives. Inspired by the new social history that looked at the past from the bottom up, Americans who had previously been disenfranchised by traditional national narratives African Americans, women, American Indians, workers, young people demanded a voice and representation in the planning. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (184 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781613762820 |