Recycling the Past : Popular Uses of American History /

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This is a book that explores in detail the use that Americans have made of their history for commercial, cultural, and ideological purposes. It focuses on popular adaptations of historical incidents and artifacts to reveal how successive generations of Americans have been able to adapt their heritag...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Knock, Thomas J. (Author)
Other Authors: Zenderland, Leila (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Geistesgeschichte
Intellectual life.
American literature.
American literature > History and criticism.
USA.
United States.
États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle.
United States > Intellectual life.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : uses of the past / Leila Zenderland
  • Fictions of Merry Mount / John P. McWilliams
  • In search of "The spirit of '76" / Thomas H. Pauly
  • Words as social control : Noah Webster and the creation of the American dictionary / Richard M. Rollins
  • Uncle Tom reconstructed : a neglected chapter in the history of a book / Thomas P. Riggio
  • Constance Rourke in context : the uses of myth / Joan Shelley Rubin
  • "History with lightning" : the forgotten film Wilson / Thomas J. Knock
  • Tradition and diplomatic talent : the case of the cold warriors / Bruce Kuklick.

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