George Washington Written Upon the Land : Nature, Memory, Myth & Landscape /
In George Washington Written upon the Land, Philip Levy explores this most famous of American childhoods through its relationship to the Virginia farm where much of it took place. Using approaches from biography, archaeology, folklore and studies of landscape and material culture, Levy focuses on ho...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Morgantown :
West Virginia University Press,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | In George Washington Written upon the Land, Philip Levy explores this most famous of American childhoods through its relationship to the Virginia farm where much of it took place. Using approaches from biography, archaeology, folklore and studies of landscape and material culture, Levy focuses on how different ideas about Washington's childhood functioned, what sorts of lessons they sought to teach, and how different epochs and writers understood the man and the past itself. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 293 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781940425894 (cloth) 1940425891 (cloth) 9781940425900 (paper) 1940425905 (paper) |