Author: Richard Stott
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 080189137X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
"Stott finds that male behavior could be strikingly similar in diverse locales, from taverns and boardinghouses to college campuses and sporting events. He explores the permissive attitudes that thrived in such male domains as the streets of New York City, California during the gold rush, and the Pennsylvania oil fields, arguing that such places had an important influence on American society and culture. Stott recounts how the cattle and mining towns of the American West emerged as centers of resistance to Victorian propriety. It was here that unrestrained male behavior lasted the longest, before being replaced with a new convention that equated manliness with sobriety and self-control.".
Jolly Fellows
Author: Richard Stott
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 080189137X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
"Stott finds that male behavior could be strikingly similar in diverse locales, from taverns and boardinghouses to college campuses and sporting events. He explores the permissive attitudes that thrived in such male domains as the streets of New York City, California during the gold rush, and the Pennsylvania oil fields, arguing that such places had an important influence on American society and culture. Stott recounts how the cattle and mining towns of the American West emerged as centers of resistance to Victorian propriety. It was here that unrestrained male behavior lasted the longest, before being replaced with a new convention that equated manliness with sobriety and self-control.".
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 080189137X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
"Stott finds that male behavior could be strikingly similar in diverse locales, from taverns and boardinghouses to college campuses and sporting events. He explores the permissive attitudes that thrived in such male domains as the streets of New York City, California during the gold rush, and the Pennsylvania oil fields, arguing that such places had an important influence on American society and culture. Stott recounts how the cattle and mining towns of the American West emerged as centers of resistance to Victorian propriety. It was here that unrestrained male behavior lasted the longest, before being replaced with a new convention that equated manliness with sobriety and self-control.".
Songs of the West
Author: Henry Fleetwood Sheppard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Songs of the West
Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
Publisher: London : Methuen, [19--]
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher: London : Methuen, [19--]
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
History of My Own Times; or, the Life and Adventures of William Otter, Sen., Comprising a Series of Events, and Musical Incidents Altogether Original
Author: William Otter
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501732072
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Big Bill Otter was one member of the early American working class not preoccupied with republican principles or the heritage of the Revolution. Big Bill Otter—apprentice, journeyman, master plasterer—was a thug. Otter's autobiography, first published in 1835, provides a rare and fascinating counterpoint to romantic notions of virtuous, respectable craftsmen in the early republic. His Life and Adventures offer an inside account of the brawling racism common in the early nineteenth century and sharply detail the rowdy male subculture of the times. Born in England and conscripted into the British Navy during the Napoleonic wars, Otter jumped ship and came to New York City in 1801. He apprenticed as a plasterer and joined an urban gang; later he was a master plasterer, tavernkeeper, slavecatcher, "Jackson man," bigot, town bully, notorious practical joker, borderline psychopath, mayoral candidate, and all-round "jolly fellow." History of My Own Times is one of the few first-person accounts of a rural artisan in pre-genteel America. The book depicts the ambiguities of race relations in the early nineteenth century, sheds light on its definition of manhood, and conveys a sense of humor very different from today's. Richard B. Stott's introduction an,d commentary place Otter in the context of his times and explore the significance of his autobiography in understanding the social and cultural history of the early American republic.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501732072
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Big Bill Otter was one member of the early American working class not preoccupied with republican principles or the heritage of the Revolution. Big Bill Otter—apprentice, journeyman, master plasterer—was a thug. Otter's autobiography, first published in 1835, provides a rare and fascinating counterpoint to romantic notions of virtuous, respectable craftsmen in the early republic. His Life and Adventures offer an inside account of the brawling racism common in the early nineteenth century and sharply detail the rowdy male subculture of the times. Born in England and conscripted into the British Navy during the Napoleonic wars, Otter jumped ship and came to New York City in 1801. He apprenticed as a plasterer and joined an urban gang; later he was a master plasterer, tavernkeeper, slavecatcher, "Jackson man," bigot, town bully, notorious practical joker, borderline psychopath, mayoral candidate, and all-round "jolly fellow." History of My Own Times is one of the few first-person accounts of a rural artisan in pre-genteel America. The book depicts the ambiguities of race relations in the early nineteenth century, sheds light on its definition of manhood, and conveys a sense of humor very different from today's. Richard B. Stott's introduction an,d commentary place Otter in the context of his times and explore the significance of his autobiography in understanding the social and cultural history of the early American republic.
The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The book of snobs, and Sketches and travels in London
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Miscellanies
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Christmas books. The rose and the ring, etc
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: The book of snobs and Sketches and travels in London
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: Contributions to Punch
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description