UID:
almafu_9959238463702883
Format:
1 online resource (198 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-06274-3
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9780253108861
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9786612062742
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0-253-10886-1
Content:
Fictions of History offers a new definition of the term ""fictions."" A fiction is not merely the imaginative literature we treasure in works of novelists, dramatists, and poets. It is a powerful, driving idea that enters the life of an individual, the course a whole society travels, and the stories historians tell about the human past. In many dimensions, fictions affect every person on planet Earth. We all live lives based on fictions.Frances Richardson Keller chooses fascinating examples
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Fictions and the missions of history: our fictions, our missions, our selves -- The grandest fiction -- The scramble after the Civil War -- From Mormon polygamy to American monogamy: shifting fictions in the life of a society -- Eleanor Roosevelt: changing fictions in the life of an individual.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-253-34076-4
Language:
English
