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Paperback Listening to Nineteenth-Century America Book

ISBN: 0807849820

ISBN13: 9780807849828

Listening to Nineteenth-Century America

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Arguing for the importance of the aural dimension of history, Mark M. Smith contends that to understand what it meant to be northern or southern, slave or free--to understand sectionalism and the attitudes toward modernity that led to the Civil War--we must consider how antebellum Americans comprehended the sounds and silences they heard.

Smith explores how northerners and southerners perceived the sounds associated with antebellum developments...

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