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Autore |
Keller Frances Richardson <1917-> |
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Titolo |
Fictions of U.S. history [[electronic resource] ] : a theory and four illustrations / / Frances Richardson Keller |
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Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2002 |
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1-282-06274-3 |
9780253108861 |
9786612062742 |
0-253-10886-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (198 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Fictions, Theory of |
Ideology - Social aspects - United States |
Patriarchy |
United States Historiography |
United States History Philosophy |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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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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Fictions and the missions of history: our fictions, our missions, our selves -- The grandest fiction -- The scramble after the Civil War -- From Mormon polygamy to American monogamy: shifting fictions in the life of a society -- Eleanor Roosevelt: changing fictions in the life of an individual. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Fictions of History offers a new definition of the term ""fictions."" A fiction is not merely the imaginative literature we treasure in works of novelists, dramatists, and poets. It is a powerful, driving idea that enters the life of an individual, the course a whole society travels, and the stories historians tell about the human past. In many dimensions, fictions affect every person on planet Earth. We all live lives based on fictions.Frances Richardson Keller chooses fascinating examples |
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