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Homesickness: An American History
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| #1702685 in Books | 2011-09-08 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.40 x1.00 x9.30l,1.35 | File type: PDF | 360 pages||12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.| Things I should have guessed but never knew!|By Laine|This heavily researched and footnoted book is a really interesting eye opening read. Anyone who is interested in genealogy, history, or the history of emotional/mental/physical illnesses will find a new perspective here. Nostalgia and homesickness, words coined in the colonial period, were once considered real and possib|||"[An] indispensable new book, which belongs on the shelf of important works of American revisionism...Matt shows that we are reluctant immigrants, hesitant pioneers, unenthusiastic warriors, and ambivalent modernizers who really would have rather skipped all
Homesickness today is dismissed as a sign of immaturity, what children feel at summer camp, but in the nineteenth century it was recognized as a powerful emotion. When gold miners in California heard the tune "Home, Sweet Home," they sobbed. When Civil War soldiers became homesick, army doctors sent them home, lest they die. Such images don't fit with our national mythology, which celebrates the restless individualism of colonists, explorers, pioneers, soldiers, and immi...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Homesickness: An American History | Susan J. Matt.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
