A Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-century America

by ThomasM.Allen (Author)

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  2008

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  Explores how transformations in the perception of time shaped American conceptions of democratic society and modern nationhood. This study analyzes cultural artifacts ranging from clocks and scientific treatises to paintings and literary narratives to show how Americans made use of these ideas about time to create visions of American nationhood.