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Mapping American Culture
Contributor(s): Franklin, Wayne (Editor), Steiner, Michael (Editor)
ISBN: 087745518X     ISBN-13: 9780877455189
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 1995
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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".
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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
 
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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."