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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David E Nye |
ISBN: | 0262640597 9780262640596 |
OCLC Number: | 1063413383 |
Notes: | Originally published: 2003. |
Description: | 381 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Responsibility: | David E. Nye. |
Abstract:
After 1776, the former American colonies started to re-imagine themselves as a unified, self-created community. Technologies had an important role in the resulting national narratives, and David Nye here explores the stories that clustered around these technologies.
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