American Uses of History
Subtitle: Essays on Public Memory
Publisher: Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9783631614617
Subjects: United states, civilization; United states, history
Description: "This collection of essays in American Studies investigates how American cultural production intersects with public memory. The contributions present the results of diverse fields of research. While most are literary analyses, others focus on film, art works, monuments, and other means by which public memory is shaped. The essays in this collection also analyze travel writings, records of political history, and the ways American agricultural landscape preserves traces of the country's past"--Publisher's description, back cover.