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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"National mythology"”.
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National Mythology and Colonial Trauma in Alex Miller’s Journey to the Stone Country
In 1991 the Australian government instigated a process of reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous people. This process aimed at laying the foundations of a postcolonial nation through the establishment of the truth about the past, the acknowledgment of the injustices inflicted on the …
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'What are ye, little mannie?': the Persistence of Fairy Culture in Scotland,1572-1703 and 1811-1927
… Reformation, while notions of cultural heritage, national mythology, and escapist fantasy dominated Victorian fairy discourse. A comparative study on fairy culture demonstrates how cultural traditions can help link vastly different time periods and complicate traditional conceptions about …
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The Politics of Material Culture in the Early American Republic, c. 1800-15
… culture to create a distinguishable “American” national identity in the early republic. Although some historians have argued that this process of “Americanization” was completed during the American Revolution or in its immediate aftermath, Americans still grappled with competing visions of …
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"The cradle of liberty": Faneuil Hall and the political culture of eighteenth-century Boston
… after which the building became part of a new national mythology that betrayed its Bostonian origins.</p>
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Rewriting urban narratives of the Australian Great Depression.
… Depression are enlisted in the service of a national mythology. My exegesis pays particular attention to the ways in which revisionist historiographies of the late 1970s and beyond reflect contemporary historiographic debates. These question the availability of historical truth and …
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Reading the map: geographic space, reading publics, and the shaping of nineteenth-century American identity, 1803-1898
… put before us, so deeply imprinted on our national consciousness that they are assumed to be fixed and inevitable.” Meinig’s invitation to explore the contingency of our current nation-form provides a starting point for my dissertation, which argues that the versions of national geography …