By Shelley Streeby
This available, interdisciplinary e-book brilliantly analyzes the sensational literature of George Lippard, A.J.H Duganne, Ned Buntline, Metta Victor, Mary Denison, John Rollin Ridge, Louisa may perhaps Alcott, and plenty of different writers. Streeby additionally discusses antiwar articles within the exertions and land reform press; rules approximately Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua in pop culture; and masses extra. even if the Civil battle has generally been a huge interval marker in U.S. historical past and literature, Streeby proposes an enormous paradigm shift by utilizing mass tradition to teach that the U.S.-Mexican warfare and different conflicts with Mexicans and local american citizens within the borderlands have been basic in forming the complicated nexus of race, gender, and sophistication within the United States.
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