Building Culture: Studies in the Intellectual History of Industrializing America, 1867-1910

by RichardF.,IIITeichgraeber (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $39.13

  An unprecedented wave of interest in building new cultural institutions swept through America from the end of the Civil War through the first decade of the twentieth century. In this study, Richard Teichgraeber highlights the multiplicity of attitudes and interests that were on display in America's first great effort to build national cultural institutions.