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
Should be back in stock very soon
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