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UNINA9910155246803321 |
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Autore |
Rodney Lee. |
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Titolo |
Looking beyond borderlines : North America's frontier imagination / / Lee Rodney |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2017 |
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ISBN |
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1-315-73169-X |
1-317-55274-1 |
1-317-55275-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (225 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Routledge advances in art and visual studies ; ; 19 |
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Soggetti |
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Boundaries in art |
Boundaries - Anthropological aspects |
Nationalism and art - United States |
Nationalism and collective memory - United States |
United States Boundaries Canada |
United States Boundaries Mexico |
Canada Boundaries United States |
Mexico Boundaries United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. I. The territorial imagination -- pt. II. Mobile frontiers -- pt. III. Modalities of dissensus. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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American territorial borders have undergone significant and unparalleled changes in the last decade. They serve as a powerful and emotionally charged locus for American national identity that correlates with the historical idea of the frontier. But the concept of the frontier, so central to American identity throughout modern history, has all but disappeared in contemporary representation while the border has served to uncomfortably fill the void left in the spatial imagination of American culture. This book focuses on the shifting relationship between borders and frontiers in North America, specifically the ways in which they have been imaged and imagined since their formation in |
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