Eclipse of empires : world history in nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture /
This book analyzes the nineteenth-century American fascination with what the author calls "narratives of imperial eclipse," texts that depict the surpassing of one great civilization by another. The central claim in this book is that historical episodes of imperial eclipse - for example, I...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Tuscaloosa, Alabama : University of Alabama Press, [2013] ©2013 |
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