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Healing the Republic : The Language of Health and the Culture of Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America
Author(s): Burbick, Joan
| Binding: | Softcover |
| Volume Condition: | As New |
| Dust Jacket: | No |
| Dust Jacket Condition: | N/A |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publication Year: | 2009 |
| Publication Place: | Cambridge, UK |
| ISBN: | 9780521106733 |
| Book ID: | 006426 |
| Catalogue(s): | History - The Americas |
356pp. Laminated printed light card covers. Very light chipping to edges. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 8vo. Confronts what the author sees as a certain fundamental uneasiness about democracy in America, fearing the political freedom they hoped to embrace. Americans designed ways to control the body in the effort to create, impose, or embrace social order in a corporeal politics whose influences are felt to this day.
Keywords:
Nationalism
Nation State
democracy
United States
political freedoms
