Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Journal
Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Alexander Hamilton's Famous Report on Manufactures
Author: United States. Department of the Treasury
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manufactures
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manufactures
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
William Strickland
Author: Agnes Addison Gilchrist
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512819638
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
In Against Amnesia, Nancy J. Peterson addresses the ongoing postmodernist debate over the possibility and relevance of documentary and official histories. Drawing on Adrienne Rich's claim that women's literature and multicultural literature vigorously resist the amnesia and nostalgia that characterize mainstream North American culture, Peterson examines the struggles toward collective memory in a wealth of contemporary women's writing. Peterson's in-depth analyses of selected works by Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison, Irena Klepfisz, Joy Kogawa, and other contemporary women writers illustrate the ways in which these authors recover and represent the historical memories attached to their racial/ethnic backgrounds. Their works probe traumatic moments in the marginalized histories of minority peoples, including Native American genocide and dispossession; African American slavery, migration, and displacement; the Holocaust; and the internment of people of Japanese ancestry during World War II. Peterson contends that these writers employ literary strategies that call attention to the gaps and silences of official histories. At the same time, these literary strategies allow the authors to narrate resonant counterhistories. Rejecting the playfully imaginative treatment of history found in typical postmodern novels, these contemporary women writers seek to reconstruct historical narratives in their texts and thereby reinvigorate historical memory in contemporary American culture.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512819638
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
In Against Amnesia, Nancy J. Peterson addresses the ongoing postmodernist debate over the possibility and relevance of documentary and official histories. Drawing on Adrienne Rich's claim that women's literature and multicultural literature vigorously resist the amnesia and nostalgia that characterize mainstream North American culture, Peterson examines the struggles toward collective memory in a wealth of contemporary women's writing. Peterson's in-depth analyses of selected works by Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison, Irena Klepfisz, Joy Kogawa, and other contemporary women writers illustrate the ways in which these authors recover and represent the historical memories attached to their racial/ethnic backgrounds. Their works probe traumatic moments in the marginalized histories of minority peoples, including Native American genocide and dispossession; African American slavery, migration, and displacement; the Holocaust; and the internment of people of Japanese ancestry during World War II. Peterson contends that these writers employ literary strategies that call attention to the gaps and silences of official histories. At the same time, these literary strategies allow the authors to narrate resonant counterhistories. Rejecting the playfully imaginative treatment of history found in typical postmodern novels, these contemporary women writers seek to reconstruct historical narratives in their texts and thereby reinvigorate historical memory in contemporary American culture.
Report of the State Librarian
Author: Pennsylvania State Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Includes catalogs of accessions and special bibliographical supplements.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Includes catalogs of accessions and special bibliographical supplements.
Internal Improvement
Author: John Lauritz Larson
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807875643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
When the people of British North America threw off their colonial bonds, they sought more than freedom from bad government: most of the founding generation also desired the freedom to create and enjoy good, popular, responsive government. This book traces the central issue on which early Americans pinned their hopes for positive government action--internal improvement. The nation's early republican governments undertook a wide range of internal improvement projects meant to assure Americans' security, prosperity, and enlightenment--from the building of roads, canals, and bridges to the establishment of universities and libraries. But competitive struggles eventually undermined the interstate and interregional cooperation required, and the public soured on the internal improvement movement. Jacksonian politicians seized this opportunity to promote a more libertarian political philosophy in place of activist, positive republicanism. By the 1850s, the United States had turned toward a laissez-faire system of policy that, ironically, guaranteed more freedom for capitalists and entrepreneurs than ever envisioned in the founders' revolutionary republicanism.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807875643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
When the people of British North America threw off their colonial bonds, they sought more than freedom from bad government: most of the founding generation also desired the freedom to create and enjoy good, popular, responsive government. This book traces the central issue on which early Americans pinned their hopes for positive government action--internal improvement. The nation's early republican governments undertook a wide range of internal improvement projects meant to assure Americans' security, prosperity, and enlightenment--from the building of roads, canals, and bridges to the establishment of universities and libraries. But competitive struggles eventually undermined the interstate and interregional cooperation required, and the public soured on the internal improvement movement. Jacksonian politicians seized this opportunity to promote a more libertarian political philosophy in place of activist, positive republicanism. By the 1850s, the United States had turned toward a laissez-faire system of policy that, ironically, guaranteed more freedom for capitalists and entrepreneurs than ever envisioned in the founders' revolutionary republicanism.
Annual Report
Author: Pennsylvania State Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Internal Improvements and State Debt in Ohio
Author: Ernest Ludlow Bogart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Public Documents, Relating to the New-York Canals
Author: New York Corresponding Association for the Promotion of Internal Improvements
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
The State Works of Pennsylvania
Author: Avard Longley Bishop
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bermuda Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Vol. 15, "To the University of Leipzig on the occasion of the five hundredth anniversary of its foundation, from Yale University and the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1909."
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bermuda Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Vol. 15, "To the University of Leipzig on the occasion of the five hundredth anniversary of its foundation, from Yale University and the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1909."