Empire of ruin : black classicism and American imperial culture / John Levi Barnard.
Empire of ruin : black classicism and American imperial culture / John Levi Barnard.
Empire of ruin : black classicism and American imperial culture / John Levi Barnard.
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
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G 2020/0524
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English
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xi, 233 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: Black classicism in the American empire -- Phillis Wheatley and the affairs of state -- In plain sight: slavery and the architecture of democracy -- Ancient history, American time: Charles Chesnutt and the sites of memory -- Crumbling into dust: conjure and the ruins of empire -- Natio...
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
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New York (State)
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[2018]
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From the US Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial and the 9/11 Memorial Museum, classical forms and ideas have been central to an American nationalist aesthetic. Beginning with an understanding of this centrality of the classical tradition to the construction of American national identity and the projection of American power, Empire of Ruin describes a m...
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Empire of ruin : black classicism and American imperial culture / John Levi Barnard.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2020/0524
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74VKaZak68wX
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ISBN
9780190663612
9780190663599 (hardcover)
0190663596 (hardcover)
0190663618
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810.9896073
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991024290901402626
