Creating Picturesque America: Monument to the Natural and Cultural Landscape
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Book Details
Author(s)
Sue Rainey
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN / ASIN
0826512577
ISBN-13
9780826512574
Sales Rank
#2,578,325
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
The first comprehensive study of how this remarkable publication reinforced the way Americans viewed progress, nature, and their own country in the years following the Civil War.
"Rainey's beautifully illustrated text allows the reader to relive the world of Picturesque America, and her analysis demonstrates what a powerful illusion that was". -- Journal of American History
