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Mastering America

Author : Robert E. Bonner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521833957
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Mastering America written by Robert E. Bonner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mastering America recounts efforts of "proslavery nationalists" to navigate the nineteenth-century geopolitics of imperialism, federalism, and nationalism and to articulate themes of American mission in overtly proslavery terms. At the heart of this study are spokesmen of the Southern "Master Class" who crafted a vision of American destiny that put chattel slavery at its center. Looking beyond previous studies of the links between these "proslavery nationalists" and secession, the book sheds new light on the relationship between the conservative Unionism of the 1850s and the key formulations of Confederate nationalism that arose during war in the 1860s. Bonner's innovative research charts the crucial role these men and women played in the development of American imperialism, constitutionalism, evangelicalism, and popular patriotism.

Mastering America

Author : Robert E. Bonner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521833957
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Mastering U. S. History and Government

Author : James Killoran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780962472398
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (723 download)

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Download or read book Mastering U. S. History and Government written by James Killoran and published by . This book was released on 1995-12 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book not only teaches you about the history, culture, and government of our nation, but also gives you a framework to help you master almost any examination question about U.S. history and government. This is an interactive textbook. (It) challenges you to think about an apply what you have read, every step of the way. You must express your opinions, review your understanding of the material, give your reactions, and analyze important events and issues. -p. iv.

Mastering American History

Author : Philip L. Groisser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780910838023
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Mastering American History written by Philip L. Groisser and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Contest of Civilizations

Author : Andrew F. Lang
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469660083
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book A Contest of Civilizations written by Andrew F. Lang and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most mid-nineteenth-century Americans regarded the United States as an exceptional democratic republic that stood apart from a world seemingly riddled with revolutionary turmoil and aristocratic consolidation. Viewing themselves as distinct from and even superior to other societies, Americans considered their nation an unprecedented experiment in political moderation and constitutional democracy. But as abolitionism in England, economic unrest in Europe, and upheaval in the Caribbean and Latin America began to influence domestic affairs, the foundational ideas of national identity also faced new questions. And with the outbreak of civil war, as two rival governments each claimed the mantle of civilized democracy, the United States' claim to unique standing in the community of nations dissolved into crisis. Could the Union chart a distinct course in human affairs when slaveholders, abolitionists, free people of color, and enslaved African Americans all possessed irreconcilable definitions of nationhood? In this sweeping history of political ideas, Andrew F. Lang reappraises the Civil War era as a crisis of American exceptionalism. Through this lens, Lang shows how the intellectual, political, and social ramifications of the war and its meaning rippled through the decades that followed, not only for the nation's own people but also in the ways the nation sought to redefine its place on the world stage.

Black Resettlement and the American Civil War

Author : Sebastian N. Page
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110714177X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Black Resettlement and the American Civil War written by Sebastian N. Page and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive, comparative account of nineteenth-century America's efforts to resettle African Americans outside the United States.

Martial Culture, Silver Screen

Author : Matthew Christopher Hulbert
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 080717470X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Martial Culture, Silver Screen written by Matthew Christopher Hulbert and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martial Culture, Silver Screen analyzes war movies, one of the most popular genres in American cinema, for what they reveal about the narratives and ideologies that shape U.S. national identity. Edited by Matthew Christopher Hulbert and Matthew E. Stanley, this volume explores the extent to which the motion picture industry, particularly Hollywood, has played an outsized role in the construction and evolution of American self-definition. Moving chronologically, eleven essays highlight cinematic versions of military and cultural conflicts spanning from the American Revolution to the War on Terror. Each focuses on a selection of films about a specific war or historical period, often foregrounding recent productions that remain understudied in the critical literature on cinema, history, and cultural memory. Scrutinizing cinema through the lens of nationalism and its “invention of tradition,” Martial Culture, Silver Screen considers how movies possess the power to frame ideologies, provide social coherence, betray collective neuroses and fears, construct narratives of victimhood or heroism, forge communities of remembrance, and cement tradition and convention. Hollywood war films routinely present broad, identifiable narratives—such as that of the rugged pioneer or the “good war”—through which filmmakers invent representations of the past, establishing narratives that advance discrete social and political functions in the present. As a result, cinematic versions of wartime conflicts condition and reinforce popular understandings of American national character as it relates to violence, individualism, democracy, militarism, capitalism, masculinity, race, class, and empire. Approaching war movies as identity-forging apparatuses and tools of social power, Martial Culture, Silver Screen lays bare how cinematic versions of warfare have helped define for audiences what it means to be American.

Breakaway Americas

Author : Thomas Richards, Jr.
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421437139
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Breakaway Americas written by Thomas Richards, Jr. and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through its wide focus on a diverse array of American political practices and ideologies, Breakaway Americas will appeal to anyone interested in the Jacksonian United States, US politics, American identity, and the unpredictable nature of history.

Mid-Pacific Magazine

Author : Alexander Hume Ford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Mid-Pacific Magazine written by Alexander Hume Ford and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mid-Pacific Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Mid-Pacific Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mastering Communication in Contemporary America

Author : Melvin Lawrence DeFleur
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Book Synopsis Mastering Communication in Contemporary America by : Melvin Lawrence DeFleur

Download or read book Mastering Communication in Contemporary America written by Melvin Lawrence DeFleur and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1993 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text discusses the nature and application of the principles of human communication. It addresses both interpersonal and mass communication, and explores critical similarities and differences between animal and human communication. The first eight chapters provide students with a strong foundation of the concepts and research-supported theories. The second half of the book uses this foundation to focus on practical applications including influencing others, coping with conflicts and speaking before a group.

Mastering a New Role

Author : National Academy of Engineering
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309046467
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Mastering a New Role written by National Academy of Engineering and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1993-02-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the changing character of commercial technology development and diffusion in an integrated global economy and its implications for U.S. public policies in support of technological innovation. The volume considers the history, current practice, and future prospects for national policies to encourage economic development through both direct and indirect government support of technological advance.

The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism

Author : Duncan A. Campbell
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807181811
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism written by Duncan A. Campbell and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2024-04-10 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While historians have acknowledged that the issues of race, slavery, and emancipation were not unique to the American Civil War, they have less frequently recognized the conflict’s similarities to other global events. As renowned historian Carl Degler pointed out, the Civil War was “one among many” such conflicts during the mid-nineteenth century. Understanding the Civil War’s place in world history requires placing it within a global context of other mid-nineteenth-century political, social, and cultural issues and events. In The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism, Niels Eichhorn and Duncan A. Campbell explore the conflict from this perspective, taking a transnational and comparative approach, with a particular focus on the period from the 1830s to the 1870s. Eichhorn and Campbell examine the development of nationalism and its frequent manifestation, secession, by comparing the American experience with that of several other nations, including Germany, Hungary, and Brazil. They compare the Civil War to the Crimean and Franco-German wars to determine whether the American conflict was the first modern war. To gauge the potential of foreign intervention in the Civil War, they look to the time’s developing international debate on the legality of intercession and mediation in other nations’ insurgencies. Using the experiences of Indigenous peoples in the Americas, Africa, and the Antipodes, Eichhorn and Campbell suggest the extent to which the United States was an imperial project. To examine realpolitik, they study four vastly different practitioners—Otto von Bismarck, Louis Napoleon, Count Cavour, and Abraham Lincoln. Finally, they compare emancipation in the United States to that in Peru and the end of forced servitude in Russia, closing with a comparison of the memorialization of the Civil War with the experiences of other post-emancipation societies and an examination of how other nations mythologized their past conflicts and ignored uncomfortable truths in the pursuit of reconciliation. The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism avoids the limitations of American exceptionalism, making it the first genuine comparative and transnational study of the Civil War in an international context.

The First U.S. History Textbooks

Author : Barry Joyce
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498502164
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The First U.S. History Textbooks written by Barry Joyce and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the common narrative residing in American History textbooks published in the first half of the 19th century. That story, what the author identifies as the American “creation” or “origins” narrative, is simultaneously examined as both historic and “mythic” in composition. It offers a fresh, multidisciplinary perspective on an enduring aspect of these works. The book begins with a provocative thesis that proposes the importance of the relationship between myth and history in the creation of America’s textbook narrative. It ends with a passionate call for a truly inclusive story of who Americans are and what Americans aspire to become. The book is organized into three related sections. The first section provides the context for the emergence of American History textbooks. It analyzes the structure and utility of these school histories within the context of antebellum American society and educational practices. The second section is the heart of the book. It recounts and scrutinizes the textbook narrative as it tells the story of America’s emergence from “prehistory” through the American Revolution—the origins story of America. This section identifies the recurring themes and images that together constitute what early educators conceived as a unified cultural narrative. Section three examines the sectional bifurcation and eventual re-unification of the American History textbook narrative from the 1850s into the early 20th century. The book concludes by revisiting the relationship between textbooks, the American story, and mythic narratives in light of current debates and controversies over textbooks, American history curriculum and a common American narrative.

Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation

Author : Mark E. Neely
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807835188
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation written by Mark E. Neely and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War placed the U.S. Constitution under unprecedented--and, to this day, still unmatched--strain. Neely examines for the first time in one book the U.S. Constitution and its often overlooked cousin, the Confederate Constitution, and the ways the documents shaped the struggle for national survival.

The Second American Revolution

Author : Gregory P. Downs
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469652749
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book The Second American Revolution written by Gregory P. Downs and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the confusion about a central event in United States history begins with the name: the Civil War. In reality, the Civil War was not merely civil--meaning national--and not merely a war, but instead an international conflict of ideas as well as armies. Its implications transformed the U.S. Constitution and reshaped a world order, as political and economic systems grounded in slavery and empire clashed with the democratic process of republican forms of government. And it spilled over national boundaries, tying the United States together with Cuba, Spain, Mexico, Britain, and France in a struggle over the future of slavery and of republics. Here Gregory P. Downs argues that we can see the Civil War anew by understanding it as a revolution. More than a fight to preserve the Union and end slavery, the conflict refashioned a nation, in part by remaking its Constitution. More than a struggle of brother against brother, it entailed remaking an Atlantic world that centered in surprising ways on Cuba and Spain. Downs introduces a range of actors not often considered as central to the conflict but clearly engaged in broader questions and acts they regarded as revolutionary. This expansive canvas allows Downs to describe a broad and world-shaking war with implications far greater than often recognized.

Old Age and American Slavery

Author : David Stefan Doddington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009463659
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Old Age and American Slavery written by David Stefan Doddington and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how age shaped slavery as an institution and how the aging process affected the enslaved and enslaver alike. It challenges static models of enslaved resistance and enslaver dominance by emphasizing intergenerational conflict in the American South. Key reading for students and scholars of slavery in the US.