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    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Bloomington : Indiana University Press
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    gbv_646661426
    Format: Online-Ressource (184 p) , ill , 25 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    ISBN: 0253340764
    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 t
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Contents; Acknowledgments; Fictions of U.S. History; Prologue; 1. Fictions and the Missions of History: Our Fictions, Our Missions, Our Selves; 2. The Grandest Fiction; 3. The Scramble After the Civil War; 4. From Mormon Polygamy to American Monogamy: Shifting Fictions in the Life of a Society; 5. Eleanor Roosevelt: Changing Fictions in the Life of an Individual; Epilogue; Notes; Index; About the Author , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780253340764
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Fictions of U.S. History : A Theory and Four Illustrations
    Language: English
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