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If Our Lives Be Spared: Three Generations of an American Family in Central New York
Terrance Keenan
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Description for If Our Lives Be Spared: Three Generations of an American Family in Central New York
Hardcover. Spanning a period of eighty years, this book depicts a nineteenth-century central New York family grappling with shifting mores, civil war, and vast changes in technology, transportation, culture, education, and even regional landscape. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 black-&-white illustrations, 10 maps, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; DNF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 590.
Terrance Keenan employs a unique and fresh approach to historical narrative. His prudent use of a rich collection of family documents elevates the genre to new levels of interest, reflection, and scholarship. The result is a remarkably palpable, highly accessible, and intellectually provocative reconstruction of lives lived in epochs past. Spanning a period of eighty years, the book depicts a nineteenth-century central New York family grappling with shifting mores, civil war, and vast changes in technology, transportation, culture, education, and even regional landscape. In firsthand, sometimes intimate accounts these frontier people, business entrepreneurs - men, women and children - tell ... Read more
Terrance Keenan employs a unique and fresh approach to historical narrative. His prudent use of a rich collection of family documents elevates the genre to new levels of interest, reflection, and scholarship. The result is a remarkably palpable, highly accessible, and intellectually provocative reconstruction of lives lived in epochs past. Spanning a period of eighty years, the book depicts a nineteenth-century central New York family grappling with shifting mores, civil war, and vast changes in technology, transportation, culture, education, and even regional landscape. In firsthand, sometimes intimate accounts these frontier people, business entrepreneurs - men, women and children - tell ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
311
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815608608
SKU
V9780815608608
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About Terrance Keenan
Terrance Keenan is a former rare books and manuscripts librarian, poet, artist, and Zen Buddhist monk. His books and essays include St. Nadie in Winter: Zen Encounters with Loneliness, Practicing Eternity: Poems, and Standing Where Roads Converge: The Thomas Merton Papers at Syracuse University. He lives in Monkton, Maryland.
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