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9780801441264

How Early America Sounded

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  • ISBN13:

    9780801441264

  • ISBN10:

    0801441269

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-12-01
  • Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
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Summary

In early America, every sound had a living, willful force at its source.

Author Biography

Richard Cullen Rath is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Introduction 1(9)
``Those Thunders, Those Roarings'': The Natural Soundscape
10(33)
From the Sounds of Things
43(54)
No Corner for the Devil to Hide
97(23)
On the Rant
120(25)
The Howling Wilderness
145(28)
Conclusion: Worlds Chanted into Being
173(12)
Acknowledgments 185(4)
Abbreviations 189(2)
Notes 191(28)
Index 219

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