A Republic in Time
Subtitle: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press; University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 14, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780807831793
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Social History; c 1800 to c 1900; History; History - Military / War; History: American; USA; United States - 19th Century; United States - Revolutionary War; History / United States / 19th Century; Time; clocks; genre painting; geology; natural history; nationalism; United States of America; ninteenth century; John O'Sullivan; Thomas Jefferson; Emma Willard; Thomas Cole; Simon Willard; Chauncey Jerome; Henry Thoreau; David Beecher; Catherine Esther; Edward Hitchcock; Orra White; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Material time; modern nationhood; Lewis Mumford; Benedict Anderson; Homi Bhabha; space and time; temporality; western politics; secular time; timekeeping; Eli Terry; homogeneous; heterogeneous; American - General; 19th century; Nationalism; Political aspects; Social aspects; Space and time; United States