Author: Charles L. Perdue
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813913704
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
For Henry Adams at the turn of the twentieth century, as for his successors in the twenty-first, the relation of mind to a world remade by technology and geopolitical conflict largely determined the destiny of civil life. Henry Adams and the Need to Know presents fourteen essays that articulate Adams' ongoing preoccupation with knowledge, stressing his eclecticism and his need to clarify the role of critical intelligence in public life. Adams' work appeals to a wide spectrum of historical and literary inquiry and claims a place in multiple scholarly contexts. The topics covered in this volume range from international politics (of Adams' age and ours) to portraiture, from orientalism and travel literature to the disintegration of the human mind. Here, leading scholars explore often-overlooked details of Adams' relationships with people and ideas. They reopen settled topics and reframe truisms. Each essay affirms, in one way or another, that to study Adams is to discover his continuing and astonishing relevance.
Weevils in the Wheat
Author: Charles L. Perdue
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813913704
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
For Henry Adams at the turn of the twentieth century, as for his successors in the twenty-first, the relation of mind to a world remade by technology and geopolitical conflict largely determined the destiny of civil life. Henry Adams and the Need to Know presents fourteen essays that articulate Adams' ongoing preoccupation with knowledge, stressing his eclecticism and his need to clarify the role of critical intelligence in public life. Adams' work appeals to a wide spectrum of historical and literary inquiry and claims a place in multiple scholarly contexts. The topics covered in this volume range from international politics (of Adams' age and ours) to portraiture, from orientalism and travel literature to the disintegration of the human mind. Here, leading scholars explore often-overlooked details of Adams' relationships with people and ideas. They reopen settled topics and reframe truisms. Each essay affirms, in one way or another, that to study Adams is to discover his continuing and astonishing relevance.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813913704
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
For Henry Adams at the turn of the twentieth century, as for his successors in the twenty-first, the relation of mind to a world remade by technology and geopolitical conflict largely determined the destiny of civil life. Henry Adams and the Need to Know presents fourteen essays that articulate Adams' ongoing preoccupation with knowledge, stressing his eclecticism and his need to clarify the role of critical intelligence in public life. Adams' work appeals to a wide spectrum of historical and literary inquiry and claims a place in multiple scholarly contexts. The topics covered in this volume range from international politics (of Adams' age and ours) to portraiture, from orientalism and travel literature to the disintegration of the human mind. Here, leading scholars explore often-overlooked details of Adams' relationships with people and ideas. They reopen settled topics and reframe truisms. Each essay affirms, in one way or another, that to study Adams is to discover his continuing and astonishing relevance.
Born in Bondage
Author: Marie Jenkins Schwartz
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674043343
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Each time a child was born in bondage, the system of slavery began anew. Although raised by their parents or by surrogates in the slave community, children were ultimately subject to the rule of their owners. Following the life cycle of a child from birth through youth to young adulthood, Marie Jenkins Schwartz explores the daunting world of slave children, a world governed by the dual authority of parent and owner, each with conflicting agendas. Despite the constant threats of separation and the necessity of submission to the slaveowner, slave families managed to pass on essential lessons about enduring bondage with human dignity. Schwartz counters the commonly held vision of the paternalistic slaveholder who determines the life and welfare of his passive chattel, showing instead how slaves struggled to give their children a sense of self and belonging that denied the owner complete control. Born in Bondage gives us an unsurpassed look at what it meant to grow up as a slave in the antebellum South. Schwartz recreates the experiences of these bound but resilient young people as they learned to negotiate between acts of submission and selfhood, between the worlds of commodity and community.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674043343
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Each time a child was born in bondage, the system of slavery began anew. Although raised by their parents or by surrogates in the slave community, children were ultimately subject to the rule of their owners. Following the life cycle of a child from birth through youth to young adulthood, Marie Jenkins Schwartz explores the daunting world of slave children, a world governed by the dual authority of parent and owner, each with conflicting agendas. Despite the constant threats of separation and the necessity of submission to the slaveowner, slave families managed to pass on essential lessons about enduring bondage with human dignity. Schwartz counters the commonly held vision of the paternalistic slaveholder who determines the life and welfare of his passive chattel, showing instead how slaves struggled to give their children a sense of self and belonging that denied the owner complete control. Born in Bondage gives us an unsurpassed look at what it meant to grow up as a slave in the antebellum South. Schwartz recreates the experiences of these bound but resilient young people as they learned to negotiate between acts of submission and selfhood, between the worlds of commodity and community.
Afro-Virginian History and Culture
Author: John Saillant
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135626502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The essays in this collection offer new evidence and new conclusions on topics in the history of African Americans in Virginia such as the demography of early slave imports, the means used to regulate slave labor, the situation of female hired slaves in the backcountry, African American women in the Civil War era, and the Garveyite grassroots organizations of the 1920s.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135626502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The essays in this collection offer new evidence and new conclusions on topics in the history of African Americans in Virginia such as the demography of early slave imports, the means used to regulate slave labor, the situation of female hired slaves in the backcountry, African American women in the Civil War era, and the Garveyite grassroots organizations of the 1920s.
Remembering Slavery
Author: Ira Berlin
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1595582282
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Nearly 10 years ago, The New Press published this book and tape set that offered a startling first-person history of slavery in the US. Using excerpts from the thousands of interviews conducted with ex-slaves in the 1930s, the astonishing tapes were the only known recordings of people who actually experienced enslavement. Now this groundbreaking set is available for a new generatoin of readers and listeners, offering remastered compact discs in MP3 format of the extensive original live recordings.
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1595582282
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Nearly 10 years ago, The New Press published this book and tape set that offered a startling first-person history of slavery in the US. Using excerpts from the thousands of interviews conducted with ex-slaves in the 1930s, the astonishing tapes were the only known recordings of people who actually experienced enslavement. Now this groundbreaking set is available for a new generatoin of readers and listeners, offering remastered compact discs in MP3 format of the extensive original live recordings.
The Journal of Agriculture
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 816
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 816
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The Journal of the Department of Victoria
Author: Victoria. Department of Agriculture
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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Technical Bulletin
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 866
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 866
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The Journal of the Department of Victoria
Author: Victoria. Dept. of Agriculture
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Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Notes on Economic Entomology. No. 1-2
Author: Indian Museum
Publisher:
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Category : Beneficial insects
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Category : Beneficial insects
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Pesticides Documentation Bulletin
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Category : Agricultural pests
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Publisher:
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Category : Agricultural pests
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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