Author: James Parton
Publisher: Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
ISBN: 9781425553708
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Famous Americans of Recent Times. by James Parton.
Author: James Parton
Publisher: Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
ISBN: 9781425553708
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher: Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
ISBN: 9781425553708
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Famous Americans of Recent Times
Author: James Parton
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781512300352
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
"Famous Americans of Recent Times" from James Parton. English-born American biographer (1822-1891).
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781512300352
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
"Famous Americans of Recent Times" from James Parton. English-born American biographer (1822-1891).
Famous Americans of Recent Times
Author: James Parton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Famous Americans of Recent Times. by James Parton.
Author: James Parton
Publisher: University of Michigan Library
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher: University of Michigan Library
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Famous Americans of Recent Times
Author: James Parton
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph Sabin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Constructing American Lives
Author: Scott E. Casper
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469649047
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Nineteenth-century American authors, critics, and readers believed that biography had the power to shape individuals' characters and to help define the nation's identity. In an age predating radio and television, biography was not simply a genre of writing, says Scott Casper; it was the medium that allowed people to learn about public figures and peer into the lives of strangers. In this pioneering study, Casper examines how Americans wrote, published, and read biographies and how their conceptions of the genre changed over the course of a century. Campaign biographies, memoirs of pious women, patriotic narratives of eminent statesmen, "mug books" that collected the lives of ordinary midwestern farmers--all were labeled "biography," however disparate their contents and the contexts of their creation, publication, and dissemination. Analyzing debates over how these diverse biographies should be written and read, Casper reveals larger disputes over the meaning of character, the definition of American history, and the place of American literary practices in a transatlantic world of letters. As much a personal experience as a literary genre, biography helped Americans imagine their own lives as well as the ones about which they wrote and read.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469649047
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Nineteenth-century American authors, critics, and readers believed that biography had the power to shape individuals' characters and to help define the nation's identity. In an age predating radio and television, biography was not simply a genre of writing, says Scott Casper; it was the medium that allowed people to learn about public figures and peer into the lives of strangers. In this pioneering study, Casper examines how Americans wrote, published, and read biographies and how their conceptions of the genre changed over the course of a century. Campaign biographies, memoirs of pious women, patriotic narratives of eminent statesmen, "mug books" that collected the lives of ordinary midwestern farmers--all were labeled "biography," however disparate their contents and the contexts of their creation, publication, and dissemination. Analyzing debates over how these diverse biographies should be written and read, Casper reveals larger disputes over the meaning of character, the definition of American history, and the place of American literary practices in a transatlantic world of letters. As much a personal experience as a literary genre, biography helped Americans imagine their own lives as well as the ones about which they wrote and read.
City People
Author: Gunther Barth
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190281243
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This study explains the parallel development of urbanization and modernization in late nineteenth-century American society, demonstrating how the successful features of big-city life spread across the country and transformed towns all over America.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190281243
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This study explains the parallel development of urbanization and modernization in late nineteenth-century American society, demonstrating how the successful features of big-city life spread across the country and transformed towns all over America.
Rise of American Democracy
Author: Sean Wilentz
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393329216
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
Book Description
A political history of how the fledgling American republic developed into a democratic state offers insight into how historical beliefs about democracy compromised democratic progress and identifies the roles of key contributors.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393329216
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
Book Description
A political history of how the fledgling American republic developed into a democratic state offers insight into how historical beliefs about democracy compromised democratic progress and identifies the roles of key contributors.
Great Awakenings
Author: Frank Hoffmann
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317764110
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
As religious fervor grows, Dr. Fishwick, a recipient of the Ray and Pat Browne Award for Lifetime Achievement from The American Culture Association, takes a sweeping look at religion in the United States--the country with the highest church attendance in the Western world. Popular religion can take many shapes and forms. It can wax and wane, but it cannot be eliminated or ignored. That is what prompted him to write Great Awakenings: Popular Religion and Popular Culture. He ponders how religion affects American life and popular culture, and why religion has become a major force in contemporary politics. How has the Electronic Revolution furthered the religious right? What does popular religion tell us about popular culture? And about our faith? He identifies and explores five great religious revivals or “Great Awakenings:” the Atlantic Seaboard Awakening the Urban Awakening the Modernist Awakening the Celebrity Preacher Awakening the Electronic Awakening Fishwick explores the current events preceding and during each awakening, its leaders, followers, and critics. Great Awakenings gives a new understanding of the American religious past and leaves us with an anticipation for the next great awakening.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317764110
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
As religious fervor grows, Dr. Fishwick, a recipient of the Ray and Pat Browne Award for Lifetime Achievement from The American Culture Association, takes a sweeping look at religion in the United States--the country with the highest church attendance in the Western world. Popular religion can take many shapes and forms. It can wax and wane, but it cannot be eliminated or ignored. That is what prompted him to write Great Awakenings: Popular Religion and Popular Culture. He ponders how religion affects American life and popular culture, and why religion has become a major force in contemporary politics. How has the Electronic Revolution furthered the religious right? What does popular religion tell us about popular culture? And about our faith? He identifies and explores five great religious revivals or “Great Awakenings:” the Atlantic Seaboard Awakening the Urban Awakening the Modernist Awakening the Celebrity Preacher Awakening the Electronic Awakening Fishwick explores the current events preceding and during each awakening, its leaders, followers, and critics. Great Awakenings gives a new understanding of the American religious past and leaves us with an anticipation for the next great awakening.