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Overview"All Roads Lead to the American City provides an original view of the urban culture in America seen through its irrevocable ties with the cities and roads. Examining the history, cinema, literature, cultural myths and social geography of the United States, the book puts some of the greatest as well as the ""baddest"" American cities under the microscope." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Peter SwirskiPublisher: Hong Kong University Press Imprint: Hong Kong University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.40cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.430kg ISBN: 9789622098626ISBN 10: 9622098622 Pages: 162 Publication Date: 01 April 2007 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Unknown Availability: Out of stock Language: English Table of ContentsReviewsWithout getting caught up in a limited problematic or a narrow theoretical jargon, All Roads Lead to the American City taps the insights of many fields in order to show how intimately bound up the reality and the image of the road and the city are with the American sense of the nation. The authors move smoothly from text to history to synthesis, and back again. Taken as a whole, it makes a contribution to American Studies. Davd Grant, English Department, Grant MacEwan College Author InformationPeter Swirski is Associate Professor of American Literature and Director of American Studies at the University of Hong Kong. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |