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

Billington, James; Rae, Noel

Couverture rigide

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.

Détails de l'édition

• 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
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