The Making of an Insurgent: An Autobiography, 1882-1919

The Making of an Insurgent: An Autobiography, 1882-1919
ISBN-10
0313227691
ISBN-13
9780313227691
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
222
Language
English
Published
1948
Publisher
Greenwood
Author
Fiorello H. La Guardia

Description

Imagined Empires demonstrates that early American culture took great interest in South American civilizations, especially the Incas and Aztecs, and in so doing made a statement about the role of the United States as an empire in the emerging political order of New World colonies and states. By examining the work of Philip Freneau, Joel Barlow, William Prescott, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman, the long-contested concept of "indigenous origins" is given expanded meaning beyond traditional critiques of American culture.

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