Home in America

Author	: Thomas Dumm
Publisher	: Belknap Press
Total Pages	: 313
Release	: 2019
ISBN-10	: 9780674057715
ISBN-13	: 0674057716
Rating	: 4/5 (15 Downloads)

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Book Synopsis Home in America by : Thomas Dumm

Download or read book Home in America written by Thomas Dumm and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans encounter their homes in ways comforting and haunting: as an imagined refuge or a place of mastery and domination, a destination or a place to escape. Drawing on literature, personal experience, and the histories of slavery, incarceration, and homesteading, Thomas Dumm offers a meditation on the richness and poverty of the idea of home.

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