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Rediscovering America / Roger G. Kennedy.

Collection Type

  • Books and periodicals

GUSN

GUSN-153804

Description

xvii, 398 p., [28] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Details

Descriptive Terms

Architecture
History, Local.
Pictorial works.

Originator

Kennedy, Roger G.

Contents

Oldest South : Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi -- On privacy and space : Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah -- Polygenetic South : the Carolinas, Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia -- Conquest of Canaan : Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut -- At one extreme : Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont -- Middle Atlantic states : New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania -- Tobacco and paper : Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. -- Western adventures : Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas -- Great Lakes states : Minnesota, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana -- Some reflections on Winchesters and corn fields : the Dakotas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska -- Mountain states : Colorado, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming -- Imperial basin : Oregon, California, Washington, Hawaii, and Alaska.
How the University of Virginia became Ohio, and other thoughts about original sin -- Field guide to the southern Greek revival -- Search for the source : the heroism of Giacomo Beltrami -- Self-conscious frontier : the heroism of Henry Hastings Sibley -- Wild jackass of the prairie : the heroism of Ignatius Donnelly -- Bluegrass chivalry : Margaret Johnson, Richard Mentor Johnson, and Julia Chinn -- Francis Parkman and the evidence of France.

Publication

Boston : Houghton Mifflin

Description

xvii, 398 p., [28] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Notes

"A National Trust for Historic Preservation book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-384) and index.
Rodris Roth Library.

ISBN

0395551099 :

Call Number

Roth E180.K45 1990

Places

United States.
United States

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