Witnesses to a vanishing america: the nineteenth-century response
Auteur :
Mitchell, Lee Clark
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691638065
Date de publication :
19 avr. 2016
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
652 g
Format :
B315
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Propelled across the continent by notions of rugged individualism" and "manifest destiny," pioneer Americans soon discovered that such slogans only partly disguised the fact that building an empire meant destroying a wilderness. Through an astonishing range of media, they voiced their concern about America's westward mission. Drawing on a wide vari