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Autore: | Kammen Michael G |
Titolo: | In the past lane [[electronic resource] ] : historical perspectives on American culture / / Michael Kammen |
Pubblicazione: | New York ; ; Toronto, : Oxford University Press, 1999, c1997 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
Disciplina: | 973/.072 |
Soggetto topico: | Memory - Social aspects - United States - History |
Popular culture - United States - Historiography | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States Social life and customs Historiography |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Introduction; I: THE PERSONAL AND THE PROFESSIONAL; 1. Personal Identity and the Historian's Vocation; II: PERCEPTIONS OF CULTURE AND PUBLIC LIFE; 2. Culture and the State in America; 3. Temples of Justice: The Iconography of Judgment and American Culture; 4. ""Our Idealism Is Practical"": Emerging Uses of Tradition in American Commercial Culture, 1889-1936; 5. The Enduring Challenges and Changing Role of Cultural Institutions; III: CHANGING PERCEPTIONS OF THE PAST; 6. Myth, Memory, and Amnesia in American Historical Art; 7. The Problem of American Exceptionalism: A Reconsideration |
8. Some Patterns and Meanings of Memory Distortion in American History9. History Is Our Heritage: The Past in Contemporary American Culture; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Credits | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Michael Kammen is a major American historian, whose books have received the Bancroft and Parkman prizes. This book collects his essays on American culture, of which he is one of the major historians. |
Titolo autorizzato: | In the past lane |
ISBN: | 1-280-83317-3 |
9786610833177 | |
0-19-802713-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910454159703321 |
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