Author: Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465550216
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
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The History of Freedom
Author: Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465550216
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465550216
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
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Catalogue of the Books for Boys and Girls [in the Central Lending Library]
Author: Bolton (England). Public Libraries
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ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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The English Catalogue of Books: v. [1]. 1835-1863
Author: Sampson Low
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 742
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 742
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First Martyr of Liberty
Author: Mitch Kachun
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199875723
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
First Martyr of Liberty explores how Crispus Attucks's death in the 1770 Boston Massacre led to his achieving mythic significance in African Americans' struggle to incorporate their experiences and heroes into the mainstream of the American historical narrative. While the other victims of the Massacre have been largely ignored, Attucks is widely celebrated as the first to die in the cause of freedom during the era of the American Revolution. He became a symbolic embodiment of black patriotism and citizenship. This book traces Attucks's career through both history and myth to understand how his public memory has been constructed through commemorations and monuments; institutions and organizations bearing his name; juvenile biographies; works of poetry, drama, and visual arts; popular and academic histories; and school textbooks. There will likely never be a definitive biography of Crispus Attucks since so little evidence exists about the man's actual life. While what can and cannot be known about Attucks is addressed here, the focus is on how he has been remembered--variously as either a hero or a villain--and why at times he has been forgotten by different groups and individuals from the eighteenth century to the present day.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199875723
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
First Martyr of Liberty explores how Crispus Attucks's death in the 1770 Boston Massacre led to his achieving mythic significance in African Americans' struggle to incorporate their experiences and heroes into the mainstream of the American historical narrative. While the other victims of the Massacre have been largely ignored, Attucks is widely celebrated as the first to die in the cause of freedom during the era of the American Revolution. He became a symbolic embodiment of black patriotism and citizenship. This book traces Attucks's career through both history and myth to understand how his public memory has been constructed through commemorations and monuments; institutions and organizations bearing his name; juvenile biographies; works of poetry, drama, and visual arts; popular and academic histories; and school textbooks. There will likely never be a definitive biography of Crispus Attucks since so little evidence exists about the man's actual life. While what can and cannot be known about Attucks is addressed here, the focus is on how he has been remembered--variously as either a hero or a villain--and why at times he has been forgotten by different groups and individuals from the eighteenth century to the present day.
The Zealot and the Emancipator
Author: H. W. Brands
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0525563458
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
From the acclaimed historian and bestselling author: a page-turning account of the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln—two men moved to radically different acts to confront our nation’s gravest sin. John Brown was a charismatic and deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old Testament speaking to him, telling him to destroy slavery by any means. When Congress opened Kansas territory to slavery in 1854, Brown raised a band of followers to wage war. His men tore pro-slavery settlers from their homes and hacked them to death with broadswords. Three years later, Brown and his men assaulted the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, hoping to arm slaves with weapons for a race war that would cleanse the nation of slavery. Brown’s violence pointed ambitious Illinois lawyer and former officeholder Abraham Lincoln toward a different solution to slavery: politics. Lincoln spoke cautiously and dreamed big, plotting his path back to Washington and perhaps to the White House. Yet his caution could not protect him from the vortex of violence Brown had set in motion. After Brown’s arrest, his righteous dignity on the way to the gallows led many in the North to see him as a martyr to liberty. Southerners responded with anger and horror to a terrorist being made into a saint. Lincoln shrewdly threaded the needle between the opposing voices of the fractured nation and won election as president. But the time for moderation had passed, and Lincoln’s fervent belief that democracy could resolve its moral crises peacefully faced its ultimate test. The Zealot and the Emancipator is the thrilling account of how two American giants shaped the war for freedom.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0525563458
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
From the acclaimed historian and bestselling author: a page-turning account of the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln—two men moved to radically different acts to confront our nation’s gravest sin. John Brown was a charismatic and deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old Testament speaking to him, telling him to destroy slavery by any means. When Congress opened Kansas territory to slavery in 1854, Brown raised a band of followers to wage war. His men tore pro-slavery settlers from their homes and hacked them to death with broadswords. Three years later, Brown and his men assaulted the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, hoping to arm slaves with weapons for a race war that would cleanse the nation of slavery. Brown’s violence pointed ambitious Illinois lawyer and former officeholder Abraham Lincoln toward a different solution to slavery: politics. Lincoln spoke cautiously and dreamed big, plotting his path back to Washington and perhaps to the White House. Yet his caution could not protect him from the vortex of violence Brown had set in motion. After Brown’s arrest, his righteous dignity on the way to the gallows led many in the North to see him as a martyr to liberty. Southerners responded with anger and horror to a terrorist being made into a saint. Lincoln shrewdly threaded the needle between the opposing voices of the fractured nation and won election as president. But the time for moderation had passed, and Lincoln’s fervent belief that democracy could resolve its moral crises peacefully faced its ultimate test. The Zealot and the Emancipator is the thrilling account of how two American giants shaped the war for freedom.
God, Locke, and Liberty
Author: Joseph Loconte
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781498536516
Category : Freedom of religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
God, Locke, and Liberty argues that John Locke based his most famous defense of religious freedom on a radical reinterpretation of the life and teachings of Jesus. In a fresh and provocative analysis of Locke's A Letter Concerning Toleration, this new intellectual history examines the importance of the spiritual reform movement known as Christian humanism to Locke's bracing vision of a tolerant and pluralistic society.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781498536516
Category : Freedom of religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
God, Locke, and Liberty argues that John Locke based his most famous defense of religious freedom on a radical reinterpretation of the life and teachings of Jesus. In a fresh and provocative analysis of Locke's A Letter Concerning Toleration, this new intellectual history examines the importance of the spiritual reform movement known as Christian humanism to Locke's bracing vision of a tolerant and pluralistic society.
The English Catalogue of Books
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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The English Catalogue of Books
Author: Sampson Low
Publisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
The Primitive Methodist Magazine
Author:
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 850
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 850
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Romance of the forests, by Ascott R. Hope
Author: Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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