Witnessing America: The Library of Congress Book of Firsthand Accounts of Life in America 1600-1900 - Couverture rigide

Billington, James; Rae, Noel

 
9780670864003: Witnessing America: The Library of Congress Book of Firsthand Accounts of Life in America 1600-1900
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ISBN 10 : 0670864005 ISBN 13 : 9780670864003
Editeur : Penguin, 1996

Synopsis

A social and cultural history of the United States, told in the words of ordinary Americans, from the planting of the first settlements in Jamestown and Plymouth to the turn of the 20th century. Extracts form letters, diaries, memoirs, travel books, newspaper accounts, posters, advertisements, broadsides, and official documents combine to form a patchwork quilt of life in the United States. The book focuses on the specific and the personal rather than the abstract and the general - going to church on a cold winter day to hear a hellfire sermon, on what people elected to wear rather than who they elected to office, on going to school, living in a log or sod house, giving birth and dying.

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Éditeur
Penguin
Date d'édition
1996
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0670864005
ISBN 13 
9780670864003
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
576
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9781567317190: Witnessing America: The Library of Congress Book of First-hand Accounts of Life in America

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1567317197 ISBN 13 :  9781567317190
Editeur : MJF Books, 1996
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