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A Republic in Time : Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America /
The development of the American nation has typically been interpreted in terms of its expansion through space, specifically its growth westward. This book posits time, not space, as the most significant territory of the young nation. It argues that beginning in the nineteenth century, the actual geo...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Time and modern nationhood
- The future republic
- Material time
- Clockwork nation
- Time in the land
- Emerson's deep democracy
- Conclusion: The ends of time.