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1 online resource (184 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
Keller chooses fascinating examples to demonstrate how dominant fictions of a given time emerge and are entrenched, and how historical figures have come to accept or reject these fictions. She begins with 'the grandest fiction', the patriarchal system, and reflects on its origins, effects, and future. Then she addresses the fictions that dominated stories historians told about Reconstruction after the Civil War; the emergence and demise of Mormon polygamy as a fiction in the 19th century; and the life of Eleanor Roosevelt and the fictions that empowered her. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States -- Historiography.
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United States. |
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Historiography. |
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United States -- History -- Philosophy.
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History. |
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Philosophy. |
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Fictions, Theory of.
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Fictions, Theory of. |
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Ideology -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Ideology -- Social aspects. |
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Ideology. |
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Patriarchy.
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Patriarchy. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Keller, Frances Richardson, 1917- Fictions of U.S. history. Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2002 0253340764 (DLC) 2001004949 |
| ISBN |
0253108861 (electronic book) |
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9780253108869 (electronic book) |
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0253340764 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780253340764 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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