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Keepers of the Flame: The Role of Fire in American Culture, 1775-1925
Keepers of the Flame The Role of Fire in American Culture 17751925
Author: Margaret Hindle Hazen, Robert M. Hazen
"For, Lo! We live in an Iron Age--In the age of Steam and Fire!" wrote a poet mesmerized by the engines that were transforming American transportation, agriculture, and industry during his lifetime. Indeed, by the nineteenth century fire had become America's leitmotif--for good and for ill. "Keeping the flame" was deadly serious: even the slight...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691048093
ISBN-10: 0691048096
Publication Date: 10/1992
Pages: 300
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Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Book Type: Hardcover
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