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The cult of individualism : a history of an enduring American myth / Aaron Barlow.

Van Pelt Library HM1276 .B373 2013
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Barlow, Aaron, 1951-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Individualism--United States.
Individualism.
United States.
Culture.
Physical Description:
page cm
Place of Publication:
Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2013]
Contents:
Myths, cults, and cultures
The individual in two American cultures
From the borderlands to Ulster to the western colonies to be American
Alone in the wilderness : the myth of Daniel Boone, the reality of the border, the rise of Jackson, and the background of John Brown
How the other half lives
The townspeople, the hero, and alienation
Keeping it all apart.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781440828294
1440828296
9781440828300
144082830X
OCLC:
842337380

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