Listening to Nineteenth-century America
- ISBN-10
- 0807849820
- ISBN-13
- 9780807849828
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 372
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- UNC Press Books
- Author
- Mark Michael Smith
Description
Arguing for the importance of the aural dimension of history, Mark M. Smith contends that to understand what it meant to be northern or southern, slave or free--to understand sectionalism and the attitudes toward modernity that led to the Civil War--we mu
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