Forging America: New Lands and High Culture

by David P. Devenney

Offering a fresh perspective on the making of the American nation, Forging America: New Lands and High Culture shows how the various new portions of the country--the Northeastern wilderness, the West, and later the South and Midwest--were assimilated into the national and intellectual consciousness of the young nation. Specifically, author David P. DeVenney examines the ways in which the arts helped achieve this assimilation, primarily through...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275980553
• ISBN13: 9780275980559
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.6"