Author: Alice Felt Tyler
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 144654785X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
In its first half century the United States was visited by scores of curious European travellers who came to investigate the strange new world that was being created in the Western Hemisphere. In their accounts of the experience they praised, or condemned, the institutions and national characteristics spread out before them, seized avidly upon all differences from the European norm, and worried each peculiarity beyond recognition and beyond any just limit of its importance. Americans themselves, with the keen sensitiveness of the young and the boasting enthusiasm natural to vigorous creators of new ideas and institutions, examined the work of their hands and, believing it good, reassured themselves and answered their calumniators in a flood of aggressive replies. Every American interested in a reform movement, a new cult, or a Utopian scheme burst into print, adding another to the rapidly growing list of polemic books and pamphlets. From this variety of sources, it is possible to recapture something of the inward spirit that gave rise to the more familiar and more tangible events of America’s youth.
Freedom's Ferment - Phases of American Social History to 1860
A General Catalogue of Books in Every Department of Literature for Public School Libraries in Upper Canada
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Publisher: Department of Public Instruction for Upper Canada by Lovell & Gibson
ISBN:
Category : School libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Publisher: Department of Public Instruction for Upper Canada by Lovell & Gibson
ISBN:
Category : School libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Annual Report of the American Historical Association
Author: American Historical Association
Publisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Writings on American History
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Watching Slavery
Author: Joe Lockard
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820495415
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
How did witnesses of slavery relate their experiences and what effect did their reports have? This book examines travel accounts, fictions, poetry, and legal texts to analyze direct and indirect encounters with slavery in the antebellum United States. It discusses the rhetorical politics of British and American, and black and white, observations of slavery. The discussion raises critical questions about the role of witness and its link with political action, both in antebellum and contemporary America.
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820495415
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
How did witnesses of slavery relate their experiences and what effect did their reports have? This book examines travel accounts, fictions, poetry, and legal texts to analyze direct and indirect encounters with slavery in the antebellum United States. It discusses the rhetorical politics of British and American, and black and white, observations of slavery. The discussion raises critical questions about the role of witness and its link with political action, both in antebellum and contemporary America.
Stories with a Moral
Author: Michael E. Price
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820321325
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Stories with a Moral is the first comprehensive study of the effects of plantation society on literature and the influences of literature on social practices in nineteenth-century Georgia. During the years of frontier settlement, the Civil War, and Reconstruction, Georgia authors voiced their support for the slave system, the planter class, and the ideals of the Confederacy, presenting a humorous, passionate, and at times tragic view of a rapidly changing world. Michael E. Price examines works of fiction, travel accounts, diaries, and personal letters in this thorough survey of King Cotton's literary influence, showing how Georgia authors romanticized agrarian themes to present an appealing image of plantation economy and social structure. Stories with a Moral focuses on the importance of literature as a mode of ideological communication. Even more significant, the book shows how the writing of one century shaped the development of social practices and beliefs that persist, in legend and memory, to this day.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820321325
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Stories with a Moral is the first comprehensive study of the effects of plantation society on literature and the influences of literature on social practices in nineteenth-century Georgia. During the years of frontier settlement, the Civil War, and Reconstruction, Georgia authors voiced their support for the slave system, the planter class, and the ideals of the Confederacy, presenting a humorous, passionate, and at times tragic view of a rapidly changing world. Michael E. Price examines works of fiction, travel accounts, diaries, and personal letters in this thorough survey of King Cotton's literary influence, showing how Georgia authors romanticized agrarian themes to present an appealing image of plantation economy and social structure. Stories with a Moral focuses on the importance of literature as a mode of ideological communication. Even more significant, the book shows how the writing of one century shaped the development of social practices and beliefs that persist, in legend and memory, to this day.
Catalogue of the Public School library of Municipality no. two
Author: Second Municipality (NEW ORLEANS). Public School Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The Journal of Education for Upper Canada
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Braided Relations, Entwined Lives
Author: Cynthia M. Kennedy
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253111463
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
"[A] stunning, deeply researched, and gracefully written social history." -- Leslie Schwalm, University of Iowa This study of women in antebellum Charleston, South Carolina, looks at the roles of women in an urban slave society. Cynthia M. Kennedy takes up issues of gender, race, condition (slave or free), and class and examines the ways each contributed to conveying and replicating power. She analyses what it meant to be a woman in a world where historically specific social classifications determined personal destiny and where at the same time people of color and white people mingled daily. Kennedy's study examines the lives of the women of Charleston and the variety of their attempts to negotiate the web of social relations that ensnared them.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253111463
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
"[A] stunning, deeply researched, and gracefully written social history." -- Leslie Schwalm, University of Iowa This study of women in antebellum Charleston, South Carolina, looks at the roles of women in an urban slave society. Cynthia M. Kennedy takes up issues of gender, race, condition (slave or free), and class and examines the ways each contributed to conveying and replicating power. She analyses what it meant to be a woman in a world where historically specific social classifications determined personal destiny and where at the same time people of color and white people mingled daily. Kennedy's study examines the lives of the women of Charleston and the variety of their attempts to negotiate the web of social relations that ensnared them.
The North American Review
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Category : North American review and miscellaneous journal
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.
Publisher:
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Category : North American review and miscellaneous journal
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.