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Book Synopsis Passionate Nation by : James L. Haley
Download or read book Passionate Nation written by James L. Haley and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilizing many sources new to publication, James L. Haley delivers a most readable and enjoyable narrative history of Texas, told through stories—the words and recollections of Texans who actually lived the state’s spectacular history. From Jim Bowie’s and Davy Crockett’s myth-enshrouded stand at the Alamo, to the Mexican-American War, and to Sam Houston’s heroic failed effort to keep Texas in the Union during the Civil War, the transitions in Texas history have often been as painful and tense as the “normal” periods in between. Here, in all of its epic grandeur, is the story of Texas as its own passionate nation. “Texas native Haley does an outstanding job of narrating the outsized and dramatic history of the Lone Star State. John Steinbeck observed, ‘Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own private history based on, but not limited by, facts.’ Cognizant of this, Haley takes pains to separate folklore from fact. He's a good storyteller, but then it's hard to go wrong with the colorful characters he has to work with: pioneer nationalists Sam Houston and Davy Crockett, Quaker abolitionist Benjamin Lundy, a wagonload of liquored-up turn-of-the-century oilmen and such latter-day heroes as Lyndon Johnson, John Connally and Janis Joplin.”—Publishers Weekly Starred Review
Book Synopsis Passion Is the Gale by : Nicole Eustace
Download or read book Passion Is the Gale written by Nicole Eustace and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the outset of the eighteenth century, many British Americans accepted the notion that virtuous sociable feelings occurred primarily among the genteel, while sinful and selfish passions remained the reflexive emotions of the masses, from lower-class whites to Indians to enslaved Africans. Yet by 1776 radicals would propose a new universal model of human nature that attributed the same feelings and passions to all humankind and made common emotions the basis of natural rights. In Passion Is the Gale, Nicole Eustace describes the promise and the problems of this crucial social and political transition by charting changes in emotional expression among countless ordinary men and women of British America. From Pennsylvania newspapers, pamphlets, sermons, correspondence, commonplace books, and literary texts, Eustace identifies the explicit vocabulary of emotion as a medium of human exchange. Alternating between explorations of particular emotions in daily social interactions and assessments of emotional rhetoric's functions in specific moments of historical crisis (from the Seven Years War to the rise of the patriot movement), she makes a convincing case for the pivotal role of emotion in reshaping power relations and reordering society in the critical decades leading up to the Revolution. As Eustace demonstrates, passion was the gale that impelled Anglo-Americans forward to declare their independence--collectively at first, and then, finally, as individuals.
Download or read book A Passion for Facts written by Tong Lam and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this path-breaking book, Tong Lam examines the emergence of the "culture of fact" in modern China, showing how elites and intellectuals sought to transform the dynastic empire into a nation-state, thereby ensuring its survival. Lam argues that an epistemological break away from traditional modes of understanding the observable world began around the turn of the twentieth century. Tracing the Neo-Confucian school of evidentiary research and the modern departure from it, Lam shows how, through the rise of the social survey, "the fact" became a basic conceptual medium and source of truth. In focusing on China’s social survey movement, A Passion for Facts analyzes how information generated by a range of research practices—census, sociological investigation, and ethnography—was mobilized by competing political factions to imagine, manage, and remake the nation.
Book Synopsis Visitors' Companion at Our Nation's Capital by : George G. Evans
Download or read book Visitors' Companion at Our Nation's Capital written by George G. Evans and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The National Reform Movement, Its History and Principles by : David McAllister
Download or read book The National Reform Movement, Its History and Principles written by David McAllister and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lone Star Politics written by Ken Collier and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Texas, myth often clashes with the reality of everyday governance. The Nacogdoches author team (Ken Collier, Steven Galatas, & Julie Harrelson-Stephens) of Lone Star Politics explores the state’s rich political tradition and explains who gets what, and how by setting Texas in context with other states’ constitutions, policymaking, electoral practices, and institutions. Critical thinking questions and unvarnished “Winners and Losers” discussions guide students toward understanding Texas government. This Fifth Edition expands its coverage of civil rights in the state, and includes the contemporary issues that highlight the push and pull between federal, state, and local governments.
Book Synopsis Tell It to the World by : Stan Grant
Download or read book Tell It to the World written by Stan Grant and published by Scribe Us. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an Aboriginal Australian, Grant has had to contend with his country's racist legacy all his life. Born into adversity, he found an escape route through education, going on to become one of Australia's leading journalists and a correspondent for CNN. Here, he presents an extraordinarily powerful and personal meditation on race, culture, and identity.
Book Synopsis American Political Rhetoric by : Peter Augustine Lawler
Download or read book American Political Rhetoric written by Peter Augustine Lawler and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Political Rhetoric is the only reader for introductory classes in American politics, government, and political communication designed to explore fundamental political principles through classic examples of political rhetoric. Now in its seventh edition, its selections include the entire political spectrum and contributors range from our nation's founders to contemporary elected public officials, Supreme Court opinions, and representatives of historic movements for social change.
Book Synopsis Treitschke's History of Germany in the Nineteeth Century: Austria's hegemony and the increase in the power of Prussia, 1819-1830 by : Heinrich von Treitschke
Download or read book Treitschke's History of Germany in the Nineteeth Century: Austria's hegemony and the increase in the power of Prussia, 1819-1830 written by Heinrich von Treitschke and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Germany in the Nineteenth Century: Austria's hegemony and the increase in the power of Prussia, 1819-1830. v. 5-6. The influence of French liberalism, 1830-1840 by : Heinrich von Treitschke
Download or read book History of Germany in the Nineteenth Century: Austria's hegemony and the increase in the power of Prussia, 1819-1830. v. 5-6. The influence of French liberalism, 1830-1840 written by Heinrich von Treitschke and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American Congress by : Joseph West Moore
Download or read book The American Congress written by Joseph West Moore and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis What's Wrong with the World? by : John Downey Works
Download or read book What's Wrong with the World? written by John Downey Works and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of American Politics (non-partisan) by : Walter Raleigh Houghton
Download or read book History of American Politics (non-partisan) written by Walter Raleigh Houghton and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The World's Great Classics: Orations of American orators by : Timothy Dwight
Download or read book The World's Great Classics: Orations of American orators written by Timothy Dwight and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Library Committee: Timothy Dwight ... Richard Henry Stoddard, Arthur Richmond Marsh, A.B. [and others] ... Illustrated with nearly two hundred photogravures, etchings, colored plates and full page portraits of great authors. Clarence Cook, art editor.
Book Synopsis Buchanan's Conspiracy, the Nicaragua Canal, and Reciprocity by : Patrick Cudmore
Download or read book Buchanan's Conspiracy, the Nicaragua Canal, and Reciprocity written by Patrick Cudmore and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blood Passion written by Scott Martelle and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On April 20, 1914, in the small railroad town of Ludlow, Colorado, striking coalminers and state National Guardsmen waged a day-long battle that ended with the burning of a strikers' tent colony. The "Ludlow Massacre," as it is known, was only part of a seven-month war in which at least seventy-five people were killed. In Blood Passion, journalist Scott Martelle explores this largely forgotten American saga of coalminers rising against political and economic corruption, a fight that embraced some of the most volatile social movements of the early twentieth century."--Cover.
Book Synopsis A Study in Corneille by : Lee Davis Lodge
Download or read book A Study in Corneille written by Lee Davis Lodge and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
