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“The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness, draining swamps, straightening rivers, peopling the solitude, and subduing nature,” wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. That’s largely how we still think of nineteenth-century America today: a country expanding unstoppably, bending the continent’s natural bounty to the national will, heedless of consequence. A country of slavery and of Indian wars. There’s much truth in that vision.<br> <br> But if you know where to look, you can u
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- Author
- Miller, Daegan
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226336282
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Sociology, History, Nature
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5 (17 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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