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Historians on Hamilton : how a blockbuster musical is restaging America's past /

Historians on ""Hamilton"" brings together a diverse collection of top scholars to explain the Hamilton phenomenon and explore what it might mean for our understanding of America's history. In short, lively essays, these experts assess what the musical got right, what it got...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Romano, Renee Christine (Editor), Potter, Claire Bond, 1958- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: History Is Happening in Manhattan / Renee C. Romano and Claire Bond Potter
  • Act I: The Script. From Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton to Hamilton: An American Musical / William Hogeland
  • "Can We Get Back to Politics? Please": Hamilton's Missing Politics in Hamilton / Joanne B. Freeman
  • Race-Conscious Casting and the Erasure of the Black Past in Hamilton / Lyra D. Monteiro
  • The Greatest City in the World?: Slavery in New York in the Age of Hamilton / Leslie M. Harris
  • "Remember ... I'm Your Man": Masculinity, Marriage, and Gender in Hamilton / Catherine Allgor
  • Act II: The Stage. "The Ten-Dollar Founding Father": Hamilton, Money, and Federal Power / Michael O'Malley
  • Hamilton as Founders Chic: A Neo-Federalist, Antislavery Usable Past? / David Waldstreicher and Jeffrey L. Pasley
  • Hamilton and the American Revolution on Stage and Screen / Andrew M. Shockett
  • From The Black Crook to Hamilton: A Brief History of Hot Tickets on Broadway / Elizabeth L. Wollman
  • Looking at Hamilton from Inside the Broadway Bubble / Brian Eugenio Herrera
  • Act III: The Audience. Mind the Gap: Teaching Hamilton / Jim Cullen
  • Reckoning with America's Racial Past, Present, and Future in Hamilton / Patricia Herrera
  • Who Tells Your Story?: Hamilton as a People's History / Joseph M. Adelman
  • Hamilton: A New American Civic Myth / Renee C. Romano
  • "Safe in the Nation We've Made?": Staging Hamilton on Social Media / Claire Bond Potter.