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The Rising Glory Of America, 1760-1820

Author : Gordon S. Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Rising Glory Of America, 1760-1820 written by Gordon S. Wood and published by . This book was released on 1990-12-06 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guidelines for designing relief programs to counter the effects of natural or human-caused disasters. The authors assess the needs of afflicted communities and argue that development efforts should be based on existing capacities. They examine social and attitudinal characteristics of the affected population and physical aspects of the disaster site. No index. Wood has revised this collection of documents (first published in 1971) to reflect changing perceptions of the evolution of America's self-definition. Twenty-four selections voice the debate and controversy of a pivotal time period. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Rising Glory of America, 1760- 1820

Author : g. s Wood (editor.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (141 download)

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The Rising Glory of America 1760-1820. Ed., With-introduction and Notes by Gordon S. Wood

Author : Gordon S. Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (468 download)

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Download or read book The Rising Glory of America 1760-1820. Ed., With-introduction and Notes by Gordon S. Wood written by Gordon S. Wood and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Literary Quest for an American National Character

Author : Finn Pollard
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415963737
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book The Literary Quest for an American National Character written by Finn Pollard and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2009 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sections of this volume are entitled: 'A Farmer Asks a Question and a Scientist Creates a Model', 'Hugh Henry Brackenridge and the Dogma of Balance', 'The Defining Moment: Washington Irving and a History of New York', 'The Fragments: Minor Writers (c1810-1824)', and 'The Illusion Ascendant'.

America and Enlightenment Constitutionalism

Author : G. McDowell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230601065
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book America and Enlightenment Constitutionalism written by G. McDowell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-09-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This book shows in detail the Enlightenment origin of the US Constitution. It provides vivid analysis of how the Enlightenment's basic ideas were reformulated in the context of America.

New Perspectives on the Early Republic

Author : Ralph D. Gray
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252063756
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (637 download)

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Download or read book New Perspectives on the Early Republic written by Ralph D. Gray and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The American Revolution

Author : Conservation Fund (Arlington, Va.)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199324220
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The American Revolution written by Conservation Fund (Arlington, Va.) and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Revolution: A Historical Guidebook is both a guide to the most significant places of the Revolutionary War and a guide to the most authoritative books on the subject. The book presents, in chronological order, nearly 150 of the most significant battles and historic sites, and draws on essays from scholars in the field.

Censorship of the American Theatre in the Twentieth Century

Author : John H. Houchin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139436481
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Censorship of the American Theatre in the Twentieth Century written by John H. Houchin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Houchin explores the impact of censorship in twentieth-century American theatre, arguing that theatrical censorship coincided with significant challenges to religious, political and cultural systems. The study provides a summary of theatre censorship in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and analyses key episodes from 1900 to 2000. These include attempts to censure Olga Nethersole for her production of Sappho in 1901 and the theatre riots of 1913 that greeted the Abbey Theatre's production of Playboy of the Western World. Houchin explores the efforts to suppress plays in the 1920s that dealt with transgressive sexual material and investigates Congress' politically motivated assaults on plays and actors during the 1930s and 1940s. He investigates the impact of racial violence, political assassinations and the Vietnam War on the trajectory of theatre in the 1960s and concludes by examining the response to gay activist plays such as Angels in America.

Moral Visions and Material Ambitions

Author : A. Kristen Foster
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739135327
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Moral Visions and Material Ambitions written by A. Kristen Foster and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Single vision for the future of America existed after the Revolution. In light of social and economic changes, America's scope shifted from community-mindedness-the very heart of the republican ideal-to economic individualism. In Moral Visions and Material Ambittions, A. Kristen Foster describes how eager young entrepreneurs in Philadelphia manipulated America's moral vision of a classical republic to facilitate their own material ambitions, fostered by the free market economy that arose between 1776 and 1836. As market developments changed economic relationships in the city, men and women used the Revolutions's republican language to help explain what was happening to them, and in the process they helped redefine class structure in Philadelphia. This study explores the ways Philadelphians used the Revolution and its powerful language of liberty and equality to impose meaning on their lives, as an expanding market irreversibly changed social and econimic relationships in their city and, eventually, throughout the rest of the country. Book jacket.

Intimacy and Family in Early American Writing

Author : E. Burleigh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137404086
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Intimacy and Family in Early American Writing written by E. Burleigh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the prism of intimacy, Burleigh sheds light on eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century American texts. This insightful study shows how the trope of the family recurred to produce contradictory images - both intimately familiar and frighteningly alienating - through which Americans responded to upheavals in their cultural landscape.

The Contrast

Author : Cynthia A. Kierner
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814783430
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book The Contrast written by Cynthia A. Kierner and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Contrast“, which premiered at New York City's John Street Theater in 1787, was the first American play performed in public by a professional theater company. The play, written by New England-born, Harvard-educated, Royall Tyler was timely, funny, and extremely popular. When the play appeared in print in 1790, George Washington himself appeared at the head of its list of hundreds of subscribers. Reprinted here with annotated footnotes by historian Cynthia A. Kierner, Tyler’s play explores the debate over manners, morals, and cultural authority in the decades following American Revolution. Did the American colonists' rejection of monarchy in 1776 mean they should abolish all European social traditions and hierarchies? What sorts of etiquette, amusements, and fashions were appropriate and beneficial? Most important, to be a nation, did Americans need to distinguish themselves from Europeans—and, if so, how? Tyler was not the only American pondering these questions, and Kierner situates the play in its broader historical and cultural contexts. An extensive introduction provides readers with a background on life and politics in the United States in 1787, when Americans were in the midst of nation-building. The book also features a section with selections from contemporary letters, essays, novels, conduct books, and public documents, which debate issues of the era.

As Various as Their Lands: the Everyday Lives of Eighteenth-century Americans(p)

Author : Stephanie Grauman Wolf
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610750493
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book As Various as Their Lands: the Everyday Lives of Eighteenth-century Americans(p) written by Stephanie Grauman Wolf and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form

Author : Margaret K. Reid
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814209475
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form written by Margaret K. Reid and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form: Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century America examines the interplay between the familiar and the forgotten in tales of America's first century as a nation. By studying both the common concerns and the rising tensions between the known and the unknown, the told and the untold, this book offers readers new insight into the making of a nation through stories. Here, identity is built not so much through the winnowing competition of perspectives as through the cumulative layering of stories, derived from sources as diverse as rumors circulating in early patriot newspapers and the highest achievements of aesthetic culture. And yet this is not a source study: the interaction of texts is reciprocal, and the texts studied are not simply complementary but often jarring in their interrelations. The result is a new model of just how some of America's central episodes of self-definition -- the Puritan legacy, the Revolutionary War, and the Western frontier -- have achieved near mythic force in the national imagination. The most powerful myths of national identity, this author argues, are not those that erase historical facts but those able to transform such facts into their own deep resources. Book jacket.

The Origins of American Religious Nationalism

Author : Sam Haselby
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190266503
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Origins of American Religious Nationalism written by Sam Haselby and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam Haselby offers a new and persuasive account of the role of religion in the formation of American nationality, showing how a contest within Protestantism reshaped American political culture and led to the creation of an enduring religious nationalism. Following U.S. independence, the new republic faced vital challenges, including a vast and unique continental colonization project undertaken without, in the centuries-old European senses of the terms, either "a church" or "a state." Amid this crisis, two distinct Protestant movements arose: a popular and rambunctious frontier revivalism; and a nationalist, corporate missionary movement dominated by Northeastern elites. The former heralded the birth of popular American Protestantism, while the latter marked the advent of systematic Protestant missionary activity in the West. The explosive economic and territorial growth in the early American republic, and the complexity of its political life, gave both movements opportunities for innovation and influence. This book explores the competition between them in relation to major contemporary developments-political democratization, large-scale immigration and unruly migration, fears of political disintegration, the rise of American capitalism and American slavery, and the need to nationalize the frontier. Haselby traces these developments from before the American Revolution to the rise of Andrew Jackson. His approach illuminates important changes in American history, including the decline of religious distinctions and the rise of racial ones, how and why "Indian removal" happened when it did, and with Andrew Jackson, the appearance of the first full-blown expression of American religious nationalism.

Empire of Liberty

Author : Gordon S. Wood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199738335
Total Pages : 801 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Empire of Liberty written by Gordon S. Wood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-28 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, two New York Times bestsellers, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. Now, in the newest volume in the series, one of America's most esteemed historians, Gordon S. Wood, offers a brilliant account of the early American Republic, ranging from 1789 and the beginning of the national government to the end of the War of 1812. As Wood reveals, the period was marked by tumultuous change in all aspects of American life--in politics, society, economy, and culture. The men who founded the new government had high hopes for the future, but few of their hopes and dreams worked out quite as they expected. They hated political parties but parties nonetheless emerged. Some wanted the United States to become a great fiscal-military state like those of Britain and France; others wanted the country to remain a rural agricultural state very different from the European states. Instead, by 1815 the United States became something neither group anticipated. Many leaders expected American culture to flourish and surpass that of Europe; instead it became popularized and vulgarized. The leaders also hope to see the end of slavery; instead, despite the release of many slaves and the end of slavery in the North, slavery was stronger in 1815 than it had been in 1789. Many wanted to avoid entanglements with Europe, but instead the country became involved in Europe's wars and ended up waging another war with the former mother country. Still, with a new generation emerging by 1815, most Americans were confident and optimistic about the future of their country. Named a New York Times Notable Book, Empire of Liberty offers a marvelous account of this pivotal era when America took its first unsteady steps as a new and rapidly expanding nation.

Work and Labor in Early America

Author : Stephen Innes
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807838586
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Work and Labor in Early America written by Stephen Innes and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten leading scholars of early American social history here examine the nature of work and labor in America from 1614 to 1820. The authors scrutinize work diaries, private and public records, and travelers' accounts. Subjects include farmers, farmwives, urban laborers, plantation slave workers, midwives, and sailors; locales range from Maine to the Caribbean and the high seas. These essays recover the regimen that consumed the waking hours of most adults in the New World, defined their economic lives, and shaped their larger existence. Focusing on individuals as well as groups, the authors emphasize the choices that, over time, might lead to prosperity or to the poorhouse. Few people enjoyed sinecures, and every day brought new risks. Stephen Innes introduces the collection by elucidating the prophetic vision of Captain John Smith: that the New World offered abundant reward for one's "owne industrie." Several motifs stand out in the essays. Family labor has begun to assume greater prominence, both as a collective work unit and as a collective economic unit whose members worked independently. Of growing interest to contemporary scholars is the role of family size and sex ratio in determining economic decision, and vice ersa. Work patterns appear to have been driven by the goal of creating surplus production for markets; perhaps because of a desire for higher consumption, work patterns began to intensify throughout the eighteenth century and led to longer work days with fewer slack periods. Overall, labor relations showed no consistent evolution but remained fluid and flexible in the face of changing market demands in highly diverse environments. The authors address as well the larger questions of American development and indicate the directions that research in this expanding field might follow.

Revolution and the Word

Author : Cathy N. Davidson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190287438
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Revolution and the Word written by Cathy N. Davidson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolution and the Word is the classic study of the co-emergence of the U.S. nation and the new literary genre of the novel. The book remains the foundational study of reading, writing, and publishing in the new republic and provides a unique glimpse of the culture of early America. By looking at everything from publishers' account books to marginalia scrawled in eighteenth-century books to the novels themselves, Revolution and the Word provides an engaging social history of early American readership that is also informed by the most insightful aspects of literary theory. With a backward glance at the culture wars and prognostications for what lies ahead, the comprehensive introduction of this expanded edition reframes Revolution and the Word for a new generation of scholars. It revisits topics of dissent in the early national period, the status of the Constitution as a document designed to quell the still-burning passions of the American Revolution, and the role played by the novel in publicizing and articulating complex desires not addressed at the Constitutional Convention. Cathy N. Davidson provides readers with a survey and critique of the controversial and productive thought in cultural, social, and political theory as it has evolved during the last twenty years. This astute and learned assessment of recent developments in literary and historical scholarship, colonial and postcolonial studies, race theory, gender and sexuality theory, class studies, cultural studies, and history of the book will make Revolution and the Word as urgent for this generation as it was for its original readers in 1986.