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Article: The mother of invention; A new history of America looks back through the lens of technology.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)
- Article from:
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- January 2, 2003
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Byline: Alan Earls
"Inventing America," a comprehensive new history of the United States, arrives as if to offer a respite from the culture wars. As both a textbook and a highly readable narrative, the volume takes a fresh look at America, not as a 19th-century primer might have seen it - a collection of great, invariably white men, nor from a revisionist post-Vietnam/Watergate/Civil Rights Movement vantage point. Instead, the Great Republic is seen through a lens that is both unifying and comprehensive.
Rather than simply adopting a modernist tone that might focus on the American experience as a series of incidents in which beleaguered Native ...
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