Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory

ISBN-13: 9781566394451 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 336 str.

Michael Wallace

Opis

Shows how popularized historical images and narratives deeply influence Americans' understanding of their collective past. This book observes that we are a people who think of ourselves as having shed the past but also tourists who are on a 'heritage binge, ' flocking by the thousands to Ellis Island, Colonial Williamsburg, or the Vietnam Memorial