Author: Samuel Atkins ELIOT (the Elder.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Sketch of the History of Harvard College and of its present State
Author: Samuel Atkins ELIOT (the Elder.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 222
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A Sketch of the History of Harvard College
Author: Samuel Atkins Eliot
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Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Pages : 218
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The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton
Author: James C. Turner
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421435977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 629
Book Description
Originally published in 1999. James Turner's biography offers the first modern account of Norton's life and its significance, following him from his perilous travels across India as a young merchant to his role as his country's preeminent cultural critic. Turner shows how Norton developed the key ideas that still underlie the humanities—historicism and culture—and how his influence endures in America's colleges and universities because of institutions he developed and models he devised.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421435977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 629
Book Description
Originally published in 1999. James Turner's biography offers the first modern account of Norton's life and its significance, following him from his perilous travels across India as a young merchant to his role as his country's preeminent cultural critic. Turner shows how Norton developed the key ideas that still underlie the humanities—historicism and culture—and how his influence endures in America's colleges and universities because of institutions he developed and models he devised.
The City-State of Boston
Author: Mark Peterson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691209170
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
In the vaunted annals of America's founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary "city upon a hill" and the "cradle of liberty" for an independent United States. Wresting this iconic urban center from these misleading, tired clich s, The City-State of Boston highlights Boston's overlooked past as an autonomous city-state, and in doing so, offers a pathbreaking and brilliant new history of early America. Following Boston's development over three centuries, Mark Peterson discusses how this self-governing Atlantic trading center began as a refuge from Britain's Stuart monarchs and how--through its bargain with slavery and ratification of the Constitution - it would tragically lose integrity and autonomy as it became incorporated into the greater United States. Drawing from vast archives, and featuring unfamiliar alongside well-known figures, such as John Winthrop, Cotton Mather, and John Adams, Peterson explores Boston's origins in sixteenth-century utopian ideals, its founding and expansion into the hinterland of New England, and the growth of its distinctive political economy, with ties to the West Indies and southern Europe. By the 1700s, Boston was at full strength, with wide Atlantic trading circuits and cultural ties, both within and beyond Britain's empire. After the cataclysmic Revolutionary War, "Bostoners" aimed to negotiate a relationship with the American confederation, but through the next century, the new United States unraveled Boston's regional reign. The fateful decision to ratify the Constitution undercut its power, as Southern planters and slave owners dominated national politics and corroded the city-state's vision of a common good for all. Peeling away the layers of myth surrounding a revered city, The City-State of Boston offers a startlingly fresh understanding of America's history.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691209170
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
In the vaunted annals of America's founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary "city upon a hill" and the "cradle of liberty" for an independent United States. Wresting this iconic urban center from these misleading, tired clich s, The City-State of Boston highlights Boston's overlooked past as an autonomous city-state, and in doing so, offers a pathbreaking and brilliant new history of early America. Following Boston's development over three centuries, Mark Peterson discusses how this self-governing Atlantic trading center began as a refuge from Britain's Stuart monarchs and how--through its bargain with slavery and ratification of the Constitution - it would tragically lose integrity and autonomy as it became incorporated into the greater United States. Drawing from vast archives, and featuring unfamiliar alongside well-known figures, such as John Winthrop, Cotton Mather, and John Adams, Peterson explores Boston's origins in sixteenth-century utopian ideals, its founding and expansion into the hinterland of New England, and the growth of its distinctive political economy, with ties to the West Indies and southern Europe. By the 1700s, Boston was at full strength, with wide Atlantic trading circuits and cultural ties, both within and beyond Britain's empire. After the cataclysmic Revolutionary War, "Bostoners" aimed to negotiate a relationship with the American confederation, but through the next century, the new United States unraveled Boston's regional reign. The fateful decision to ratify the Constitution undercut its power, as Southern planters and slave owners dominated national politics and corroded the city-state's vision of a common good for all. Peeling away the layers of myth surrounding a revered city, The City-State of Boston offers a startlingly fresh understanding of America's history.
Bibliographical Guide to American Literature ...
Author: Nicolas Trübner
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Languages : en
Pages : 744
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Pages : 744
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Biographical Guide to American Literature
Author: Nicolas Trübner
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Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Pages : 748
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Trübner's Bibliographical Guide to American Literature; being a classified list of books, in all departments of Literature and Science, published in the United States of America during the last forty years. With an introduction, notes, three appendices and an index
Author: Nicolas Trübner
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Languages : en
Pages : 742
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Pages : 742
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Trübner's Bibliographical Guide to American Literature
Author: Nicolas Trübner
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 738
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 738
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Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Young Men's Association of the City of Chicago
Author: Young Men's Association of the City of Chicago. Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Catalogue of the Library of Parliament: Works relating to America. Pamphlets and manuscripts
Author: Canada. Library of Parliament
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 858
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 858
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