Democratic Dissent and the Cultural Fictions of Antebellum America |
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| Author:
| Hartnett, Stephen John |
| ISBN: | 978-0-252-02722-2 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2002 |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $39.00 |
Book Description:
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In this wide-ranging interdisciplinary study, Stephen John Hartnett explores the ''cultural fictions'' that accompanied and undergirded public debates in antebellum America regarding abolition and capitalism, race and slavery, manifest destiny and empire, and representation and self-making. Drawing on a rich array of persuasive ......
In this wide-ranging interdisciplinary study, Stephen John Hartnett explores the ''cultural fictions'' that accompanied and undergirded public debates in antebellum America regarding abolition and capitalism, race and slavery, manifest destiny and empire, and representation and self-making. Drawing on a rich array of persuasive ......