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Place and belonging in America /

"How did the American people come to develop a moral association with this land, such that their very experience of nationhood was rooted in, and their republican virtues depended upon, that land? And what is happening now as the exclusivity of that moral linkage between people and land becomes...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jacobson, David, 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"How did the American people come to develop a moral association with this land, such that their very experience of nationhood was rooted in, and their republican virtues depended upon, that land? And what is happening now as the exclusivity of that moral linkage between people and land becomes ever more attenuated? In Place and Belonging in America, David Jacobson addresses the evolving relationship between geography and citizenship in the United States since the nation's origins."--Jacket
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 234 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0801876060
9780801876066