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Article: A Time to Every Purpose: The Four Seasons in American Culture.(Book Review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- December 22, 2005
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A Time to Every Purpose: The Four Seasons in American Culture. By Michael Kammen (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 336 pp. $39.95).
Spring, summer, autumn, and winter are nature-made periodizations with which people have long understood changes in their environments and lives. In A Time to Every Purpose, Michael Kammen examines how the seasons have inspired American cultural development. He moves through overlapping periods to study representations of the seasons, primarily in painting, popular illustration, poetry, and prose, but also in sculpture, glass, and media such as song, film, and advertising. Kammen argues that American ...