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America, a history in art : the American journey told by painters, sculptors, photographers, and architects / W.G Scheller.

Title
America, a history in art : the American journey told by painters, sculptors, photographers, and architects / W.G Scheller.
Author
Scheller, William G.
Publication
New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers : Distributed by Workman Pub., c2008.

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Description
320 p. : ill. (some col.); 32 cm.
Summary
A chronicle of the history of the United States, including key events, figures, and developments, through a collection of three hundred reproductions of paintings, sculptures, photographs, and architecture.
Subject
  • Art, American
  • United States > History
  • United States > In art
Genre/Form
  • Art
  • History.
Note
  • Includes index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
First Americans (prehistory to ca. 1600) -- The experiment begins (1600-1700) -- Colonial noontide (1700-1770) -- The American Revolution (1770-1783) -- The federal era (1783-1815) -- American expansionism (1815-1860) -- The Civil War (1860-1865) -- The Gilded Age (1865-1890) -- A new colossus (1890-1901) -- Progressivism and a call to arms (1901-1918) -- Prosperity and Depression (1918-1939) -- The Second World War (1939-1945) -- Cold war and new frontier (1945-1963) -- Turbulence and transition (1964-1989) -- Into the millennium (1989-present).
ISBN
  • 9781579127794
  • 1579127797
LCCN
^^2008019342
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library