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A republic in time : temporality and social imagination in nineteenth-century America / Thomas M. Allen.

Author: Allen, Thomas M., 1967-

Publisher:Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.

Description:xiii, 275 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-266) and index.

Note:Introduction: Time and modern nationhood -- The future republic -- Material time -- Clockwork nation -- Time in the land -- Emerson's deep democracy -- Conclusion: The ends of time.

E-Resource:Electronic version: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0720/2007023207.html -- Materials specified: Table of contents only



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United States -- Intellectual life -- 1783-1865.
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