ISBN:
0807861669
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9780807861660
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Boulder, Colo NetLibrary
Series Statement:
EBSCOhost eBook Collection
Keywords:
Federal Writers' Project History
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Federal Writers' Project Histoire
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Federal Writers' Project History
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Federal Writers' Project History.
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Federal Writers' Project Federal Writers' Project
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1900 - 1999
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Federal Writers' Project
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Américains
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National characteristics, American
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National characteristics, American.
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Historiography
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Intellectual life
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National characteristics, American
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New Deal
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Schrijvers
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Nationale identiteit
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Cultuur
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HISTORY
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Civilization
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History
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Kultur
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United States Historiography
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United States Intellectual life
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20th century
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United States Civilization
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1918-1945
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États-Unis Historiographie
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États-Unis Vie intellectuelle
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20e siècle
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États-Unis Civilisation
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1918-1945
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United States
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United States Historiography
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United States Intellectual life 20th century
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United States Civilization 1918-1945
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United States Historiography.
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United States Intellectual life 20th century.
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United States Civilization 1918-1945.
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United States
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USA
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Electronic book
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books History
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USA
;
Kultur
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Geschichte 1918-1945
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USA
;
Kultur
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Geschichte 1918-1945
Abstract:
How well do we know our country? Whom do we include when we use the word "American"? These are not just contemporary issues but recurring questions Americans have asked themselves throughout their history--and questions that were addressed when, in 1935, the Roosevelt administration created the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. Although the immediate context of the FWP was work relief, national FWP officials developed programs that spoke to much larger and longer-standing debates over the nature of American identity and culture and the very de
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part One: Romantic Nationalism, Cultural Pluralism, and the Federal Writers' Project; Chapter 1 Inherited Questions; Chapter 2 Visions and Constituencies: Introducing and Writing the American Guide Series; Chapter 3 A New Deal View of American History and Art: The Federal Writers' Project Guidebook Essays; Chapter 4 Picturesque Pluralism: The Guidebook Tours; Part Two: Modernity, Cultural Pluralism, and the Federal Writers' Project; Chapter 5 Long Live Participation!: Ethnicity, Race, and the Federal Writers' Project
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 6 Before Columbia: The Federal Writers' Project and American Oral History ResearchChapter 7 The People Must Be Heard: W. T. Couch and the Southern Life History Program; Chapter 8 Toward a Marriage of True Minds: The Federal Writers' Project and the Writing of Southern Folk History; Part Three: Denouement; Chapter 9 Conflicting Definitions of America: The Dies Committee and the Writers' Project; Chapter 10 Reform, Culture, and Patriotism: The Writers' Project Becomes the Writers' Program, 1939-1943; Epilogue: Have You Discovered America?; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K
Description / Table of Contents:
LM; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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