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Category : Archaeology and state
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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History Line
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Category : Archaeology and state
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Category : Archaeology and state
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Summer by the Seaside
Author: Bryant Franklin Tolles
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584655763
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A sweeping, richly illustrated architectural study of the large, historic New England coastal resort hotels
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584655763
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A sweeping, richly illustrated architectural study of the large, historic New England coastal resort hotels
The American Catalogue
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
American national trade bibliography.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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American national trade bibliography.
The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 962
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 962
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American Guides
Author: Wendy Griswold
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022635797X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
In the midst of the Great Depression, Americans were nearly universally literate—and they were hungry for the written word. Magazines, novels, and newspapers littered the floors of parlors and tenements alike. With an eye to this market and as a response to devastating unemployment, Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration created the Federal Writers’ Project. The Project’s mission was simple: jobs. But, as Wendy Griswold shows in the lively and persuasive American Guides, the Project had a profound—and unintended—cultural impact that went far beyond the writers’ paychecks. Griswold’s subject here is the Project’s American Guides, an impressively produced series that set out not only to direct travelers on which routes to take and what to see throughout the country, but also to celebrate the distinctive characteristics of each individual state. Griswold finds that the series unintentionally diversified American literary culture’s cast of characters—promoting women, minority, and rural writers—while it also institutionalized the innovative idea that American culture comes in state-shaped boxes. Griswold’s story alters our customary ideas about cultural change as a gradual process, revealing how diversity is often the result of politically strategic decisions and bureaucratic logic, as well as of the conflicts between snobbish metropolitan intellectuals and stubborn locals. American Guides reveals the significance of cultural federalism and the indelible impact that the Federal Writers’ Project continues to have on the American literary landscape.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022635797X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
In the midst of the Great Depression, Americans were nearly universally literate—and they were hungry for the written word. Magazines, novels, and newspapers littered the floors of parlors and tenements alike. With an eye to this market and as a response to devastating unemployment, Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration created the Federal Writers’ Project. The Project’s mission was simple: jobs. But, as Wendy Griswold shows in the lively and persuasive American Guides, the Project had a profound—and unintended—cultural impact that went far beyond the writers’ paychecks. Griswold’s subject here is the Project’s American Guides, an impressively produced series that set out not only to direct travelers on which routes to take and what to see throughout the country, but also to celebrate the distinctive characteristics of each individual state. Griswold finds that the series unintentionally diversified American literary culture’s cast of characters—promoting women, minority, and rural writers—while it also institutionalized the innovative idea that American culture comes in state-shaped boxes. Griswold’s story alters our customary ideas about cultural change as a gradual process, revealing how diversity is often the result of politically strategic decisions and bureaucratic logic, as well as of the conflicts between snobbish metropolitan intellectuals and stubborn locals. American Guides reveals the significance of cultural federalism and the indelible impact that the Federal Writers’ Project continues to have on the American literary landscape.
The Christian Union
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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The Illustrated American
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 988
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Languages : en
Pages : 988
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Bulletin of Books in the Various Departments of Literature and Science Added to the Public Library of Cincinnati During the Year...
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Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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The American Catalog
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Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Bulletin of Books in the Various Departments of Literature and Science Added to the Public Library of Cincinnati During the Year...
Author: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
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Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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