Author: George Bancroft
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Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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An Oration Delivered on the Fourth of July, 1826, at Northampton, Mass
Author: George Bancroft
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
An Oration Delivered on the Fourth of July, 1826, at Northampton, Mass
Author: George Bancroft
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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The Fourth of July
Author: Paul Goetsch
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN: 9783823344841
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN: 9783823344841
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Union
Author: Colin Woodard
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525560173
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
A Christian Science Monitor best book of 2020 "Relentlessly accessible. . . . This is that rare history that tells what influential thinkers failed to think, what famous writers left unwritten." --Jill Leovy, The American Scholar By the bestselling author of American Nations, the story of how the myth of U.S. national unity was created and fought over in the nineteenth century--a myth that continues to affect us today Union tells the story of the struggle to create a national myth for the United States, one that could hold its rival regional cultures together and forge an American nationhood. On one hand, a small group of individuals--historians, political leaders, and novelists--fashioned and promoted the idea of America as nation that had a God-given mission to lead humanity toward freedom, equality, and self-government. But this emerging narrative was swiftly contested by another set of intellectuals and firebrands who argued that the United States was instead the homeland of the allegedly superior "Anglo-Saxon" race, upon whom divine and Darwinian favor shined. Colin Woodard tells the story of the genesis and epic confrontations between these visions of our nation's path and purpose through the lives of the key figures who created them, a cast of characters whose personal quirks and virtues, gifts and demons shaped the destiny of millions.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525560173
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
A Christian Science Monitor best book of 2020 "Relentlessly accessible. . . . This is that rare history that tells what influential thinkers failed to think, what famous writers left unwritten." --Jill Leovy, The American Scholar By the bestselling author of American Nations, the story of how the myth of U.S. national unity was created and fought over in the nineteenth century--a myth that continues to affect us today Union tells the story of the struggle to create a national myth for the United States, one that could hold its rival regional cultures together and forge an American nationhood. On one hand, a small group of individuals--historians, political leaders, and novelists--fashioned and promoted the idea of America as nation that had a God-given mission to lead humanity toward freedom, equality, and self-government. But this emerging narrative was swiftly contested by another set of intellectuals and firebrands who argued that the United States was instead the homeland of the allegedly superior "Anglo-Saxon" race, upon whom divine and Darwinian favor shined. Colin Woodard tells the story of the genesis and epic confrontations between these visions of our nation's path and purpose through the lives of the key figures who created them, a cast of characters whose personal quirks and virtues, gifts and demons shaped the destiny of millions.
Private Library of Harold Peirce of Philadelphia
Author: Stan. V. Henkels (Firm)
Publisher:
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Category : Book collectors
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Publisher:
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Category : Book collectors
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Strange Nation
Author: J. Gerald Kennedy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190491280
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
After the War of 1812, Americans belatedly realized that they lacked national identity. The subsequent campaign to articulate nationality transformed every facet of culture from architecture to painting, and in the realm of letters, literary jingoism embroiled American authors in the heated politics of nationalism. The age demanded stirring images of U.S. virtue, often achieved by contriving myths and obscuring brutalities. Between these sanitized narratives of the nation and U.S. social reality lay a grotesque discontinuity: vehement conflicts over slavery, Indian removal, immigration, and territorial expansion divided the country. Authors such as Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine M. Sedgwick, William Gilmore Simms, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Lydia Maria Child wrestled uneasily with the imperative to revise history to produce national fable. Counter-narratives by fugitive slaves, Native Americans, and defiant women subverted literary nationalism by exposing the plight of the unfree and dispossessed. And with them all, Edgar Allan Poe openly mocked literary nationalism and deplored the celebration of "stupid" books appealing to provincial self-congratulation. More than any other author, he personifies the contrary, alien perspective that discerns the weird operations at work behind the facade of American nation-building.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190491280
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
After the War of 1812, Americans belatedly realized that they lacked national identity. The subsequent campaign to articulate nationality transformed every facet of culture from architecture to painting, and in the realm of letters, literary jingoism embroiled American authors in the heated politics of nationalism. The age demanded stirring images of U.S. virtue, often achieved by contriving myths and obscuring brutalities. Between these sanitized narratives of the nation and U.S. social reality lay a grotesque discontinuity: vehement conflicts over slavery, Indian removal, immigration, and territorial expansion divided the country. Authors such as Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine M. Sedgwick, William Gilmore Simms, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Lydia Maria Child wrestled uneasily with the imperative to revise history to produce national fable. Counter-narratives by fugitive slaves, Native Americans, and defiant women subverted literary nationalism by exposing the plight of the unfree and dispossessed. And with them all, Edgar Allan Poe openly mocked literary nationalism and deplored the celebration of "stupid" books appealing to provincial self-congratulation. More than any other author, he personifies the contrary, alien perspective that discerns the weird operations at work behind the facade of American nation-building.
Book Catalogue
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Stevens's Historical Collections ...
Author: Henry Stevens
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Stevens's Historical Collections
Author: Henry Stevens (Jr.)
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Catalogue of Elegant and Rare Books from the Libraries of Two Well-known Collectors, [etc., Etc.]
Author: Bangs & Co
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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