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1846 PORTRAIT OF NATION
Margaret C. S. Christman
出版
Smithsonian
, 1996-04-17
ISBN
1560986743
9781560986744
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=iJ91AAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Marking the Smithsonian Institution's 150th anniversary, 1846 evokes the texture of American daily life, thought, and politics during a single influential year. In a narrative accompanied by nearly two hundred illustrations, Margaret Christman revisits a capital dominated by Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, and James K. Polk and follows the westward journeys of Brigham Young, Francis Parkman, and the ill-fated Donner party. Moving from the Transcendentalists to the Hudson River School, from Gothic Revival architecture to anesthesia and the sewing machine, Christman chronicles as well the antislavery movement and other social-reform campaigns that expanded the nation's conscience and changed its future.
