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Secularism in Antebellum America

Author : John Lardas Modern
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226533255
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Secularism in Antebellum America written by John Lardas Modern and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghosts. Railroads. Sing Sing. Sex machines. These are just a few of the phenomena that appear in John Lardas Modern’s pioneering account of religion and society in nineteenth-century America. This book uncovers surprising connections between secular ideology and the rise of technologies that opened up new ways of being religious. Exploring the eruptions of religion in New York’s penny presses, the budding fields of anthropology and phrenology, and Moby-Dick, Modern challenges the strict separation between the religious and the secular that remains integral to discussions about religion today. Modern frames his study around the dread, wonder, paranoia, and manic confidence of being haunted, arguing that experiences and explanations of enchantment fueled secularism’s emergence. The awareness of spectral energies coincided with attempts to tame the unruly fruits of secularism—in the cultivation of a spiritual self among Unitarians, for instance, or in John Murray Spear’s erotic longings for a perpetual motion machine. Combining rigorous theoretical inquiry with beguiling historical arcana, Modern unsettles long-held views of religion and the methods of narrating its past.

African Muslims in Antebellum America

Author : Allan D. Austin
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415912695
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book African Muslims in Antebellum America written by Allan D. Austin and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Reading Fiction in Antebellum America

Author : James L. Machor
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801899338
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Reading Fiction in Antebellum America written by James L. Machor and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James L. Machor offers a sweeping exploration of how American fiction was received in both public and private spheres in the United States before the Civil War. Machor takes four antebellum authors—Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Catharine Sedgwick, and Caroline Chesebro'—and analyzes how their works were published, received, and interpreted. Drawing on discussions found in book reviews and in private letters and diaries, Machor examines how middle-class readers of the time engaged with contemporary fiction and how fiction reading evolved as an interpretative practice in nineteenth-century America. Through careful analysis, Machor illuminates how the reading practices of nineteenth-century Americans shaped not only the experiences of these writers at the time but also the way the writers were received in the twentieth century. What Machor reveals is that these authors were received in ways strikingly different from how they are currently read, thereby shedding significant light on their present status in the literary canon in comparison to their critical and popular positions in their own time. Machor deftly combines response and reception criticism and theory with work in the history of reading to engage with groundbreaking scholarship in historical hermeneutics. In so doing, Machor takes us ever closer to understanding the particular and varying reading strategies of historical audiences and how they impacted authors’ conceptions of their own readership.

Manifest Destiny's Underworld

Author : Robert E. May
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807860409
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Manifest Destiny's Underworld written by Robert E. May and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-04-03 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating study sheds new light on antebellum America's notorious "filibusters--the freebooters and adventurers who organized or participated in armed invasions of nations with whom the United States was formally at peace. Offering the first full-scale analysis of the filibustering movement, Robert May relates the often-tragic stories of illegal expeditions into Cuba, Mexico, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and other Latin American countries and details surprising numbers of aborted plots, as well. May investigates why thousands of men joined filibustering expeditions, how they were financed, and why the U.S. government had little success in curtailing them. Surveying antebellum popular media, he shows how the filibustering phenomenon infiltrated the American psyche in newspapers, theater, music, advertising, and literature. Condemned abroad as pirates, frequently in language strikingly similar to modern American denunciations of foreign terrorists, the filibusters were often celebrated at home as heroes who epitomized the spirit of Manifest Destiny. May concludes by exploring the national consequences of filibustering, arguing that the practice inflicted lasting damage on U.S. relations with foreign countries and contributed to the North-South division over slavery that culminated in the Civil War.

Culture of Eloquence

Author : James Perrin Warren
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271039132
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Culture of Eloquence written by James Perrin Warren and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Early Republic and Antebellum America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History

Author : Christopher G. Bates
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317457390
Total Pages : 3424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Early Republic and Antebellum America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History written by Christopher G. Bates and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 3424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2015. This text holds four volumes of essays and entries on the early Republic and Antebellum era in America spanning the end of the American Revolution in 1781 to the outbreak of Civil War in 1861. The Americans forged a new government in theory and then in practice, with the beginnings of industrialisation and the effects of urbanisation, widespread poverty, labour strife, debates around slavery and sectional discord. By the end of the nineteenth century American had a powerhouse economy, new technologies and the emergence of major social reform movements, creation of uniquely American art and literature and the conquest of the West. This encyclopaedia offers a historic reference.

The Mark of Slavery

Author : Jenifer L. Barclay
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252052617
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Mark of Slavery written by Jenifer L. Barclay and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the disability history of slavery Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery and white supremacy by linking blackness to disability, defectiveness, and dependency. Jenifer L. Barclay examines the ubiquitous narratives that depicted black people with disabilities as pitiable, monstrous, or comical, narratives used not only to defend slavery but argue against it. As she shows, this relationship between ableism and racism impacted racial identities during the antebellum period and played an overlooked role in shaping American history afterward. Barclay also illuminates the everyday lives of the ten percent of enslaved people who lived with disabilities. Devalued by slaveholders as unsound and therefore worthless, these individuals nonetheless carved out an unusual autonomy. Their roles as caregivers, healers, and keepers of memory made them esteemed within their own communities and celebrated figures in song and folklore. Prescient in its analysis and rich in detail, The Mark of Slavery is a powerful addition to the intertwined histories of disability, slavery, and race.

Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America

Author : Nancy Isenberg
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807847466
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America written by Nancy Isenberg and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this book, Nancy Isenberg illuminates the origins of the women's rights movement. Rather than herald the singular achievements of the 1848 Seneca Falls convention, she examines the confluence of events and ideas_before and after 1848_that, in her vie

Schooling Citizens

Author : Hilary J. Moss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226542513
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Schooling Citizens written by Hilary J. Moss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While white residents of antebellum Boston and New Haven forcefully opposed the education of black residents, their counterparts in slaveholding Baltimore did little to resist the establishment of African American schools. Such discrepancies, Hilary Moss argues, suggest that white opposition to black education was not a foregone conclusion. Through the comparative lenses of these three cities, she shows why opposition erupted where it did across the United States during the same period that gave rise to public education. As common schooling emerged in the 1830s, providing white children of all classes and ethnicities with the opportunity to become full-fledged citizens, it redefined citizenship as synonymous with whiteness. This link between school and American identity, Moss argues, increased white hostility to black education at the same time that it spurred African Americans to demand public schooling as a means of securing status as full and equal members of society. Shedding new light on the efforts of black Americans to learn independently in the face of white attempts to withhold opportunity, Schooling Citizens narrates a previously untold chapter in the thorny history of America’s educational inequality.

Old Dominion Industrial Commonwealth

Author : Sean Patrick Adams
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1421400510
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Old Dominion Industrial Commonwealth written by Sean Patrick Adams and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the role of state policies in North-South economic divergence and in American industrial development leading up to the Civil War. In 1796, famed engineer and architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe toured the coal fields outside Richmond, Virginia, declaring enthusiastically, “Such a mine of Wealth exists, I believe, nowhere else!” With its abundant and accessible deposits, growing industries, and network of rivers and ports, Virginia stood poised to serve as the center of the young nation’s coal trade. By the middle of the nineteenth century, however, Virginia’s leadership in the American coal industry had completely unraveled while Pennsylvania, at first slow to exploit its vast reserves of anthracite and bituminous coal, had become the country’s leading producer. Sean Patrick Adams compares the political economies of coal in Virginia and Pennsylvania from the late eighteenth century through the Civil War, examining the divergent paths these two states took in developing their ample coal reserves during a critical period of American industrialization. In both cases, Adams finds, state economic policies played a major role. Virginia’s failure to exploit the rich coal fields in the western part of the state can be traced to the legislature’s overriding concern to protect and promote the interests of the agrarian, slaveholding elite of eastern Virginia. Pennsylvania’s more factious legislature enthusiastically embraced a policy of economic growth that resulted in the construction of an extensive transportation network, a statewide geological survey, and support for private investment in its coal fields. Using coal as a barometer of economic change, Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth addresses longstanding questions about North-South economic divergence and the role of state government in American industrial development.

Birthright Citizens

Author : Martha S. Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107150345
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Birthright Citizens written by Martha S. Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the origins of the Fourteenth Amendment's birthright citizenship provision, as a story of black Americans' pre-Civil War claims to belonging.

In Pursuit of Knowledge

Author : Kabria Baumgartner
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479816728
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book In Pursuit of Knowledge written by Kabria Baumgartner and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-04 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2021 AERA Outstanding Book Award Winner, 2021 AERA Division F New Scholar's Book Award Winner, 2020 Mary Kelley Book Prize, given by the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Winner, 2020 Outstanding Book Award, given by the History of Education Society Uncovers the hidden role of girls and women in the desegregation of American education The story of school desegregation in the United States often begins in the mid-twentieth-century South. Drawing on archival sources and genealogical records, Kabria Baumgartner uncovers the story’s origins in the nineteenth-century Northeast and identifies a previously overlooked group of activists: African American girls and women. In their quest for education, African American girls and women faced numerous obstacles—from threats and harassment to violence. For them, education was a daring undertaking that put them in harm’s way. Yet bold and brave young women such as Sarah Harris, Sarah Parker Remond, Rosetta Morrison, Susan Paul, and Sarah Mapps Douglass persisted. In Pursuit of Knowledge argues that African American girls and women strategized, organized, wrote, and protested for equal school rights—not just for themselves, but for all. Their activism gave rise to a new vision of womanhood: the purposeful woman, who was learned, active, resilient, and forward-thinking. Moreover, these young women set in motion equal-school-rights victories at the local and state level, and laid the groundwork for further action to democratize schools in twentieth-century America. In this thought-provoking book, Baumgartner demonstrates that the confluence of race and gender has shaped the long history of school desegregation in the United States right up to the present.

Navigating Failure

Author : Edward J. Balleisen
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807875503
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Navigating Failure written by Edward J. Balleisen and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-01-14 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "self-made" man is a familiar figure in nineteenth-century American history. But the relentless expansion of market relations that facilitated such stories of commercial success also ensured that individual bankruptcy would become a prominent feature in the nation's economic landscape. In this ambitious foray into the shifting character of American capitalism, Edward Balleisen explores the economic roots and social meanings of bankruptcy, assessing the impact of widespread insolvency on the evolution of American law, business culture, and commercial society. Balleisen makes innovative use of the rich and previously overlooked court records generated by the 1841 Federal Bankruptcy Act, building his arguments on the commercial biographies of hundreds of failed business owners. He crafts a nuanced account of how responses to bankruptcy shaped two opposing elements of capitalist society in mid-nineteenth-century America--an entrepreneurial ethos grounded in risk taking and the ceaseless search for new markets, new products, and new ways of organizing economic activity, and an urban, middle-class sensibility increasingly averse to the dangers associated with independent proprietorship and increasingly predicated on salaried, white-collar employment.

Spiritualism in Antebellum America

Author : Bret E. Carroll
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Spiritualism in Antebellum America written by Bret E. Carroll and published by . This book was released on 1997-10-22 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the origins, beliefs, practices, and significance of Spiritualism, a colorful religious ideology centered on spirit communication and spirit activity. Looks at Spiritualism as a reflection of and a reaction to many currents in antebellum American life, such as democratic conceptions of religious authority, the revolt against religious formalism, the growing power of science, and the rise of commercial capitalism. Includes bandw illustrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

A History of Banking in Antebellum America

Author : Howard Bodenhorn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521669993
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (699 download)

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Download or read book A History of Banking in Antebellum America written by Howard Bodenhorn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Bodenhorn reveals how America was served by an efficient system of financial intermediaries by the mid-nineteenth century.

Antebellum

Author : R. Kayeen Thomas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1593094264
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Antebellum written by R. Kayeen Thomas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When rapper Da Nigga is sent back in time, he finds himself a slave forced to live the life of his ancestors. A rapper in the present day, Da Nigga must confront the reality of the African-American experience as slavery challenges everything he holds dear: from his fellow rappers and their lyrics, to the executives and their motives. Antebellum is the hard-hitting, gritty story of Da Nigga and his firsthand experiences. An illuminating examination of African-American history, Antebellum is a powerful addition to today's discourse on race and culture.

Haiti's Influence on Antebellum America

Author : Alfred N. Hunt
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807153729
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Haiti's Influence on Antebellum America written by Alfred N. Hunt and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Haitian Revolution began in 1791 as a slave revolt on the French colonial island of Saint Domingue and ended thirteen years later with the founding of an independent black republic. Waves of French West Indians -- slaves, white colonists, and free blacks -- fled the upheaval and flooded southern U.S. ports -- most notably New Orleans -- bringing with them everything from French opera to voodoo. Alfred N. Hunt discusses the ways these immigrants affected southern agriculture, architecture, language, politics, medicine, religion, and the arts. He also considers how the events in Haiti influenced the American slavery-emancipation debate and spurred developments in black militancy and Pan-Africanism in the United States. By effecting the development of racial ideology in antebellum America, Hunt concludes, the Haitian Revolution was a major contributing factor to the attitudes that led to the Civil War.