| Mapping American Culture Contributor(s): Franklin, Wayne (Editor), Steiner, Michael (Editor) |
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ISBN: 087745518X ISBN-13: 9780877455189 Publisher: University of Iowa Press OUR PRICE: $22.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1995 Annotation: What connections can be drawn between oral history and the shopping mall? Gospel music and the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant? William Carlos Williams's Paterson and the Manhattan Project's secret cities? The answers lie in this insightful collection of essays that read and illuminate the American landscape. Through literature and folklore, music and oral history, autobiography, architecture, and photography, eleven leading writers and thinkers explore the dialectic between space and place in modern American life. The result is an eloquent and provocative reminder of the environmental context of events - the deceptively simple fact that events "take place". |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - History | United States - General |
| Dewey: 973 |
| LCCN: 92010421 |
| Series: American Land & Life |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 6.13" W x 9.27" (1.19 lbs) 318 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What connections can be drawn between oral history and the shopping mall? Gospel music and the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant? William Carlos Williams's Patterson and the Manhattan Project's secret cities? The answers lie in this insightful collection of essays that read and illuminate the American landscape. Through literature and folklore, music and oral history, autobiography, architecture, and photography, eleven leading writers and thinkers explore the dialectic between space and place in modern American life. The result is an eloquent and provocative reminder of the environmental context of events--the deceptively simple fact that events "take place." |