Author: Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Publisher:
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Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Irwin Russell
Author: Donald Kenneth Hanzek
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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The Battle for Christmas
Author: Stephen Nissenbaum
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307760227
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • Drawing on a wealth of research, this "fascinating" book (The New York Times Book Review) charts the invention of our current Yuletide traditions, from St. Nicholas to the Christmas tree and, perhaps most radically, the practice of giving gifts to children. Anyone who laments the excesses of Christmas might consider the Puritans of colonial Massachusetts: they simply outlawed the holiday. The Puritans had their reasons, since Christmas was once an occasion for drunkenness and riot, when poor "wassailers extorted food and drink from the well-to-do. In this intriguing and innovative work of social history, Stephen Nissenbaum rediscovers Christmas's carnival origins and shows how it was transformed, during the nineteenth century, into a festival of domesticity and consumerism. Bursting with detail, filled with subversive readings of such seasonal classics as "A Visit from St. Nicholas” and A Christmas Carol, The Battle for Christmas captures the glorious strangeness of the past even as it helps us better understand our present.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307760227
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • Drawing on a wealth of research, this "fascinating" book (The New York Times Book Review) charts the invention of our current Yuletide traditions, from St. Nicholas to the Christmas tree and, perhaps most radically, the practice of giving gifts to children. Anyone who laments the excesses of Christmas might consider the Puritans of colonial Massachusetts: they simply outlawed the holiday. The Puritans had their reasons, since Christmas was once an occasion for drunkenness and riot, when poor "wassailers extorted food and drink from the well-to-do. In this intriguing and innovative work of social history, Stephen Nissenbaum rediscovers Christmas's carnival origins and shows how it was transformed, during the nineteenth century, into a festival of domesticity and consumerism. Bursting with detail, filled with subversive readings of such seasonal classics as "A Visit from St. Nicholas” and A Christmas Carol, The Battle for Christmas captures the glorious strangeness of the past even as it helps us better understand our present.
The Publishers' Trade List Annual
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Category : Publishers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1906
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Publisher:
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Category : Publishers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1906
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The New South Creed
Author: Paul M. Gaston
Publisher: NewSouth Books
ISBN: 1603061444
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
First published in 1970, The New South Creed has lost none of its usefulness to anyone examining the dream of a "New South" -- prosperous, powerful, racially harmonious -- that developed in the three decades after the Civil War, and the transformation of that dream into widely accepted myths, shielding and perpetuating a conservative, racist society. Many young moderates of the period created a philosophy designed to enrich the region -- attempting to both restore the power and prestige and to lay the race question to rest. In spite of these men and their efforts, their dream of a New South joined the Antebellum illusion as a genuine social myth, with a controlling power over the way in which their followers, in both North and South, perceived reality.
Publisher: NewSouth Books
ISBN: 1603061444
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
First published in 1970, The New South Creed has lost none of its usefulness to anyone examining the dream of a "New South" -- prosperous, powerful, racially harmonious -- that developed in the three decades after the Civil War, and the transformation of that dream into widely accepted myths, shielding and perpetuating a conservative, racist society. Many young moderates of the period created a philosophy designed to enrich the region -- attempting to both restore the power and prestige and to lay the race question to rest. In spite of these men and their efforts, their dream of a New South joined the Antebellum illusion as a genuine social myth, with a controlling power over the way in which their followers, in both North and South, perceived reality.
Hope Farm Notes
Author: Herbert W. Collingwood
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387089228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387089228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
A Collection of Humorous, Dramatic, and Dialect Selections
Author: Alfred P. Burbank
Publisher:
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Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Publisher:
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Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Australian Adventure
Author: Anne Clark
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292759630
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
From August 1965 to February 1968, during his period of service in Australia, Ambassador Edward Clark traveled in that country as no other American and probably few Australians ever have. His wife, Anne Clark, traveled with him, then wrote her observations and impressions to friends and family in the United States. Her letters, published for the first time in this volume, reveal the isolations and involvements as well as the opportunities and the pleasures of embassy life. The etiquette of official functions at times posed problems, as in the Clarks' first black-tie dinner with the Acting Governor General, where Mrs. Clark was supposed to curtsy. "Some Ambassadors feel strongly that the representative of the President of the United States should never bend his knee (or rather his wife's) to any man. Mrs. Battle, wife of our predecessor ... put the question directly to President Kennedy. His answer to her was, 'Curtsy you must, but keep a stiff upper knee.'" Soon, Anne Clark realized that the routine of appearances and entertainments was constant: "I do not know when I will make peace with the schedule. I am a slave to the little black book that is my calendar." In addition to the intricacies of embassy life, the Clarks encountered much that was unfamiliar—new people, almost a new language, new flowers, new animals—even a sky with its new moon upside down. But their warm hospitality and genuine interest in things Australian attracted friends throughout the continent. Figures from the government, the church, the diplomatic circle, and everyday life, plus well-known guests from home, all become known to the reader in this perceptive account of official life from the inside.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292759630
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
From August 1965 to February 1968, during his period of service in Australia, Ambassador Edward Clark traveled in that country as no other American and probably few Australians ever have. His wife, Anne Clark, traveled with him, then wrote her observations and impressions to friends and family in the United States. Her letters, published for the first time in this volume, reveal the isolations and involvements as well as the opportunities and the pleasures of embassy life. The etiquette of official functions at times posed problems, as in the Clarks' first black-tie dinner with the Acting Governor General, where Mrs. Clark was supposed to curtsy. "Some Ambassadors feel strongly that the representative of the President of the United States should never bend his knee (or rather his wife's) to any man. Mrs. Battle, wife of our predecessor ... put the question directly to President Kennedy. His answer to her was, 'Curtsy you must, but keep a stiff upper knee.'" Soon, Anne Clark realized that the routine of appearances and entertainments was constant: "I do not know when I will make peace with the schedule. I am a slave to the little black book that is my calendar." In addition to the intricacies of embassy life, the Clarks encountered much that was unfamiliar—new people, almost a new language, new flowers, new animals—even a sky with its new moon upside down. But their warm hospitality and genuine interest in things Australian attracted friends throughout the continent. Figures from the government, the church, the diplomatic circle, and everyday life, plus well-known guests from home, all become known to the reader in this perceptive account of official life from the inside.
Myth and Southern History: The New South
Author: Patrick Gerster
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252060250
Category : Southern States
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Many historical myths are actually false yet psychologically true. This title looks myth and reality as complementary elements in the historical record.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252060250
Category : Southern States
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Many historical myths are actually false yet psychologically true. This title looks myth and reality as complementary elements in the historical record.
Recitations and Readings
Author: Latham
Publisher:
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Category : Readers and speakers
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Readers and speakers
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Irwin Russell, Pioneer in the Literary Development of the Negro Character
Author: Robert Lee Banks
Publisher:
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Category : African Americans in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description