Terre Ryan: This Ecstatic Nation : The American Landscape and the Aesthetics of Patriotism
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Author: Terre Ryan
Number of Pages: 176 pages
Published Date: 30 Sep 2011
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Publication Country: Massachusetts, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781558498730
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