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The Vital Past

Writings on the Uses of History

Stephen Vaughn author Stephen Vaughn editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Georgia Press

Published:1st Aug '85

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The importance of history and its relevance to the present have seldom gone unquestioned in modern times. This is particularly true in the United States, born as the quintessentially modern nation, where the image of a vast open frontier and the unofficial state creed of limitless progress have diminished the importance of the past, and where the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson proclaimed that nature and personal experience made tradition irrelevant for the self-reliant American.

ISBN: 9780820307541

Dimensions: 235mm x 152mm x 23mm

Weight: 576g

424 pages