Heartless Immensity: Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America
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As the size of the United States more than doubled during the first half of the nineteenth century, a powerful current of anxiety ran alongside the well-documented optimism about national expansion. Heartless Immensity tells the story of how Americans made sense of their country's constantly fluctuating borders and its annexation of vast new territories. Anne Baker looks at a variety of sources, including letters, speeches, newspaper editorials,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0472115707
ISBN13:9780472115709
Release Date:November 2006
Publisher:University of Michigan Press
Length:184 Pages
Weight:0.94 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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