American Visions: The United States 1800-1860 Edward L Ayers Ww Norton Co Αγγλικά Βιβλία Fiction Essays And Literary Reference

With So Many Of Our Histories Falling Into Dour Critique Or Blatant Celebration Here Is A Welcome Departure: Book That Offers Hope As Well Honesty About The American Past Early Decades Nineteenth Century Saw Expansion Slavery Native Dispossession Mass Immigration And Wars Continental Neighbours Yet Eccentric Visions Altered Accepted Wisdom Voices From Margins Moved Centre Acts Empathy Defied Self-Interest Edward L Ayers’s Rich History Examines Frederick Douglass Margaret Fuller Activist William Apess To Challenge Vastly Powerful Practices Beliefs Melville Thoreau Joseph Smith Samuel Morse Were Similarly Harness Their Creativity Forge New Paths Forward These Visionaries Critics Built Vigorous Traditions Innovation Dissent Very Foundation Nation Σελίδες: 368 Έτος Έκδοσης: 1106 Διαστάσεις: 16 3X16 3Cm