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In the wake of American independence, it was clear that the new United States required novel political forms. Less obvious but no less revolutionary was the ide
Culture Clash
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Pages: 260
Authors: Michael Bronski
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By examining the motif of ruination in a variety of late-eighteenth-century domains, this book portrays the moral aesthetic of the culture of sensibility in Eur