Author: C. Dallett Hemphill
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195352246
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Anglo-Americans wrestled with some profound cultural contradictions as they shifted from the hierarchical and patriarchal society of the seventeenth-century frontier to the modern and fluid class democracy of the mid-nineteenth century. How could traditional inequality be maintained in the socially leveling environment of the early colonial wilderness? And how could nineteenth-century Americans pretend to be equal in an increasingly unequal society? Bowing to Necessities argues that manners provided ritual solutions to these central cultural problems by allowing Americans to act out--and thus reinforce--power relations just as these relations underwent challenges. Analyzing the many sermons, child-rearing guides, advice books, and etiquette manuals that taught Americans how to behave, this book connects these instructions to individual practices and personal concerns found in contemporary diaries and letters. It also illuminates crucial connections between evolving class, age, and gender relations. A social and cultural history with a unique and fascinating perspective, Hemphill's wide-ranging study offers readers a panorama of America's social customs from colonial times to the Civil War.
Bowing to Necessities
Author: C. Dallett Hemphill
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195352246
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Anglo-Americans wrestled with some profound cultural contradictions as they shifted from the hierarchical and patriarchal society of the seventeenth-century frontier to the modern and fluid class democracy of the mid-nineteenth century. How could traditional inequality be maintained in the socially leveling environment of the early colonial wilderness? And how could nineteenth-century Americans pretend to be equal in an increasingly unequal society? Bowing to Necessities argues that manners provided ritual solutions to these central cultural problems by allowing Americans to act out--and thus reinforce--power relations just as these relations underwent challenges. Analyzing the many sermons, child-rearing guides, advice books, and etiquette manuals that taught Americans how to behave, this book connects these instructions to individual practices and personal concerns found in contemporary diaries and letters. It also illuminates crucial connections between evolving class, age, and gender relations. A social and cultural history with a unique and fascinating perspective, Hemphill's wide-ranging study offers readers a panorama of America's social customs from colonial times to the Civil War.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195352246
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Anglo-Americans wrestled with some profound cultural contradictions as they shifted from the hierarchical and patriarchal society of the seventeenth-century frontier to the modern and fluid class democracy of the mid-nineteenth century. How could traditional inequality be maintained in the socially leveling environment of the early colonial wilderness? And how could nineteenth-century Americans pretend to be equal in an increasingly unequal society? Bowing to Necessities argues that manners provided ritual solutions to these central cultural problems by allowing Americans to act out--and thus reinforce--power relations just as these relations underwent challenges. Analyzing the many sermons, child-rearing guides, advice books, and etiquette manuals that taught Americans how to behave, this book connects these instructions to individual practices and personal concerns found in contemporary diaries and letters. It also illuminates crucial connections between evolving class, age, and gender relations. A social and cultural history with a unique and fascinating perspective, Hemphill's wide-ranging study offers readers a panorama of America's social customs from colonial times to the Civil War.
Bowing to Necessities
Author: C. Dallett Hemphill
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195154088
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Anglo-Americans wrestled with some profound cultural contradictions as they shifted from the hierarchical and patriarchal society of the seventeenth-century frontier to the modern and fluid class democracy of the mid-nineteenth century. How could traditional inequality be maintained in the socially leveling environment of the early colonial wilderness? And how could nineteenth-century Americans pretend to be equal in an increasingly unequal society? Bowing to Necessities argues that manners provided ritual solutions to these central cultural problems by allowing Americans to act out--and thus reinforce--power relations just as these relations underwent challenges. Analyzing the many sermons, child-rearing guides, advice books, and etiquette manuals that taught Americans how to behave, this book connects these instructions to individual practices and personal concerns found in contemporary diaries and letters. It also illuminates crucial connections between evolving class, age, and gender relations. A social and cultural history with a unique and fascinating perspective, Hemphill's wide-ranging study offers readers a panorama of America's social customs from colonial times to the Civil War.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195154088
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Anglo-Americans wrestled with some profound cultural contradictions as they shifted from the hierarchical and patriarchal society of the seventeenth-century frontier to the modern and fluid class democracy of the mid-nineteenth century. How could traditional inequality be maintained in the socially leveling environment of the early colonial wilderness? And how could nineteenth-century Americans pretend to be equal in an increasingly unequal society? Bowing to Necessities argues that manners provided ritual solutions to these central cultural problems by allowing Americans to act out--and thus reinforce--power relations just as these relations underwent challenges. Analyzing the many sermons, child-rearing guides, advice books, and etiquette manuals that taught Americans how to behave, this book connects these instructions to individual practices and personal concerns found in contemporary diaries and letters. It also illuminates crucial connections between evolving class, age, and gender relations. A social and cultural history with a unique and fascinating perspective, Hemphill's wide-ranging study offers readers a panorama of America's social customs from colonial times to the Civil War.
Bowing to Necessities
Author: C. Dallett Hemphill
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780197711866
Category : Etiquette
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
How men and women interact, the respect young show old, and old show young, and who doffs their hat to whom provides a telling window on American cultural history. This study works through two centuries of conduct literature.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780197711866
Category : Etiquette
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
How men and women interact, the respect young show old, and old show young, and who doffs their hat to whom provides a telling window on American cultural history. This study works through two centuries of conduct literature.
Sensory Worlds in Early America
Author: Peter Charles Hoffer
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801873533
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Presents a 'sensory history' of early North America, this text offers an understanding of the role that sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch played in shaping the lives of Europeans, Indians, and Africans in the New World. It explores the impact of sensuous experiences on human thought and action.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801873533
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Presents a 'sensory history' of early North America, this text offers an understanding of the role that sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch played in shaping the lives of Europeans, Indians, and Africans in the New World. It explores the impact of sensuous experiences on human thought and action.
Jefferson's Body
Author: Maurizio Valsania
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813939690
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
What did Thomas Jefferson look like? How did he carry himself? Such questions, reasonable to ask as we look back on a person who lived in an era before photography, are the starting point for this boldly original new work. Maurizio Valsania considers all aspects of Jefferson’s complex conception of "the body," from eighteenth-century clothing and fashion to manners, adornment, posture, gesture, and visual and material culture. Drawing also from the fields of medical science, psychology, and cultural anthropology, the author conjures a vivid and detailed re-creation of the third president as a living, breathing—and pondering—human being. Having situated Jefferson in his own body, Valsania looks at the embodied Jefferson in the world of his fellow humans. Any one of the other people in Jefferson’s society—whether that other person was male or female, free or enslaved, African American or Native American—was a critical counterexample for the eighteenth-century Virginian to define himself against, and Valsania’s explorations here lead to numerous insightful discoveries about race, gender, and structures of power. The first comprehensive exploration of Jefferson’s corporeal world, Jefferson’s Body brings the man vividly to life for the modern reader while deepening our understanding of what it meant to Jefferson to be alive.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813939690
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
What did Thomas Jefferson look like? How did he carry himself? Such questions, reasonable to ask as we look back on a person who lived in an era before photography, are the starting point for this boldly original new work. Maurizio Valsania considers all aspects of Jefferson’s complex conception of "the body," from eighteenth-century clothing and fashion to manners, adornment, posture, gesture, and visual and material culture. Drawing also from the fields of medical science, psychology, and cultural anthropology, the author conjures a vivid and detailed re-creation of the third president as a living, breathing—and pondering—human being. Having situated Jefferson in his own body, Valsania looks at the embodied Jefferson in the world of his fellow humans. Any one of the other people in Jefferson’s society—whether that other person was male or female, free or enslaved, African American or Native American—was a critical counterexample for the eighteenth-century Virginian to define himself against, and Valsania’s explorations here lead to numerous insightful discoveries about race, gender, and structures of power. The first comprehensive exploration of Jefferson’s corporeal world, Jefferson’s Body brings the man vividly to life for the modern reader while deepening our understanding of what it meant to Jefferson to be alive.
De Bow's Review
Author: James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
De Bow's Review
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Category : Southern States
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
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Category : Southern States
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Building a Bow Hunter
Author: Eric Whitaker
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1649138547
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Building a Bow Hunter: One Coloradan’s Journey By: Eric Whitaker Some people don’t discover a passion for something until later in life. Building a Bow Hunter: One Coloradan’s Journey is a story told from the perspective of a regular, everyday blue-collar guy who found this passion in his thirties. It’s about finding yourself and your purpose during the pursuit of happiness and amidst struggle and complications of learning new things. It’s about finding balance between reality and obsession. Perhaps readers will be motivated to seek out what captivates them and follow their passion. Here’s hoping those people can live out their destiny.
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1649138547
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Building a Bow Hunter: One Coloradan’s Journey By: Eric Whitaker Some people don’t discover a passion for something until later in life. Building a Bow Hunter: One Coloradan’s Journey is a story told from the perspective of a regular, everyday blue-collar guy who found this passion in his thirties. It’s about finding yourself and your purpose during the pursuit of happiness and amidst struggle and complications of learning new things. It’s about finding balance between reality and obsession. Perhaps readers will be motivated to seek out what captivates them and follow their passion. Here’s hoping those people can live out their destiny.
I Bow to Everything
Author: Marcia Buch
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781462074686
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
I Bow To Everything is an unfolding account of deep, rich lessons of the soul. Through receiving news that turned her comfortable world upside down, Marcia Buch, teacher and artist, shares her inspirational story of coping, with the potential to uplift all of us in our daily journey. She writes, "When I can turn lessons inward, and see that I can repair sadness within myself, this then ripples out to others. The world becomes better because I have taken the time to look inward, take action, and live with the intention to be truthful in my life even in those places of sadness and doubt. Living and loving strong are beautiful ways to surf the crest of the waves of life." I Bow To Everything chronicles a personal journey of acknowledging grief, embracing joy and improving quality of life. "If God said, Rumi, pay homage to everything that has helped you enter my arms, there would not be one experience of my life, not one thought, there would not be one experience of my life, not one thought," not any act, I would not bow to." Rumi
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781462074686
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
I Bow To Everything is an unfolding account of deep, rich lessons of the soul. Through receiving news that turned her comfortable world upside down, Marcia Buch, teacher and artist, shares her inspirational story of coping, with the potential to uplift all of us in our daily journey. She writes, "When I can turn lessons inward, and see that I can repair sadness within myself, this then ripples out to others. The world becomes better because I have taken the time to look inward, take action, and live with the intention to be truthful in my life even in those places of sadness and doubt. Living and loving strong are beautiful ways to surf the crest of the waves of life." I Bow To Everything chronicles a personal journey of acknowledging grief, embracing joy and improving quality of life. "If God said, Rumi, pay homage to everything that has helped you enter my arms, there would not be one experience of my life, not one thought, there would not be one experience of my life, not one thought," not any act, I would not bow to." Rumi
De Bow's Review of the Southern and Western States
Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description