Mythic frontiers: remembering, forgetting, and profiting with cultural heritage tourism
Auteur :
Maher, Daniel R.
Éditeur :
University Press of Florida
ISBN :
9780813064185
Date de publication :
5 mars 2019
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,1 x 1,7 cm
Poids :
477 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Illustrates how aggrandized versions of the past, especially those of the "American frontier", have been used to turn a profit. These imagined historical sites have effectively silenced the violent, oppressive, colonizing forces of manifest destiny and elevated principal architects of it to mythic heights.