Father Past and Child Nation: The Romantic Imagination and the Origins of the American Civil War |
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... idea of youthfulness , taken from the person and applied to the nation , was reversed . If the nation was like the ... idea that Emerson popularized in the 1830s and 1840s . It remained , however , for an obscure Unitarian clergyman ...
... idea of youthfulness , taken from the person and applied to the nation , was reversed . If the nation was like the ... idea that Emerson popularized in the 1830s and 1840s . It remained , however , for an obscure Unitarian clergyman ...
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... Idea of Progress in America : An Essay in Ideas and Method . " Journal of the History of Ideas , XVI ( 1955 ) , 401-415 . American Wilson , Major . " The Concept of Time and the Political Dialogue in the United States , 1828-1848 ...
... Idea of Progress in America : An Essay in Ideas and Method . " Journal of the History of Ideas , XVI ( 1955 ) , 401-415 . American Wilson , Major . " The Concept of Time and the Political Dialogue in the United States , 1828-1848 ...
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... Idea of Progress in America : An Essay in Ideas and Method . " Journal of the History of Ideas , XVI ( 1955 ) , 401-415 . Wilson , Major . " The concept of Time and the Political Dialogue in the United States , 1828-1848 . " American ...
... Idea of Progress in America : An Essay in Ideas and Method . " Journal of the History of Ideas , XVI ( 1955 ) , 401-415 . Wilson , Major . " The concept of Time and the Political Dialogue in the United States , 1828-1848 . " American ...
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