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People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization: Deformity and Disability in the Graeco-Roman World (Cornell Paperbacks) - Softcover

Kammen, Michael G.

 
9780801497551: People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization: Deformity and Disability in the Graeco-Roman World (Cornell Paperbacks)
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ISBN 10: 0801497558 ISBN 13: 9780801497551
Verlag: Cornell University Press, 1990

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Focusing on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the author examines the factors that have shaped the American character and culture

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Michael Kammen is the Newton C. Farr Professor of American History and Culture, and Director, Society for the Humanities, at Cornell University. His book, People of Paradox: An Inquiry concerning the Origins of American Civilization received the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1973, and he is the author of "What Is the Good of History?" Selected Letters of Carl L. Becker, 1900-1945, and A Rope of Sand: The Colonial Agents, British Politics, and the American Revolution, both published by Cornell University Press.

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From the beginning, what has given our culture its distinctive texture, pattern, and thrust, according to Michael Kammen, is the dynamic interaction of the imported and the indigenous.

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Verlag
Cornell University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1990
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0801497558
ISBN 13 
9780801497551
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
368
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