Randolph Honor
Author: M. C. L. Reeves
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2022-02-25
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 3752573546
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Author: M. C. L. Reeves
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2022-02-25
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 3752573546
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1868.
Author: Randolph B. Campbell
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 1574415034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRandolph B. "Mike" Campbell has spent the better part of the last five decades helping Texans rediscover their history, producing a stream of definitive works on the social, political, and economic structures of the Texas past. Through meticulous research and terrific prose, Campbell's collective work has fundamentally remade how historians understand Texan identity and the state's southern heritage, as well as our understanding of such contentious issues as slavery, westward expansion, and Reconstruction. Campbell's pioneering work in local and county records has defined the model for grassroots research and community studies in the field. More than any other scholar, Campbell has shaped our modern understanding of Texas. In this collection of seventeen original essays, Campbell's colleagues, friends, and students offer a capacious examination of Texas's history--ranging from the Spanish era through the 1960s War on Poverty--to honor Campbell's deep influence on the field. Focusing on themes and methods that Campbell pioneered, the essays debate Texas identity, the creation of nineteenth-century Texas, the legacies of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the remaking of the Lone Star State during the twentieth century. Featuring some of the most well-known names in the field--as well as rising stars--the volume offers the latest scholarship on major issues in Texas history, and the enduring influence of the most eminent Texas historian of the last half century.
Author: Columbia University. Faculty of Political Science
Publisher:
Published: 1889
Total Pages: 744
ISBN-13:
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Author: Kenneth S. Greenberg
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-06-16
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 0691214093
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe "honorable men" who ruled the Old South had a language all their own, one comprised of many apparently outlandish features yet revealing much about the lives of masters and the nature of slavery. When we examine Jefferson Davis's explanation as to why he was wearing women's clothing when caught by Union soldiers, or when we consider the story of Virginian statesman John Randolph, who stood on his doorstep declaring to an unwanted dinner guest that he was "not at home," we see that conveying empirical truths was not the goal of their speech. Kenneth Greenberg so skillfully demonstrates, the language of honor embraced a complex system of phrases, gestures, and behaviors that centered on deep-rooted values: asserting authority and maintaining respect. How these values were encoded in such acts as nose-pulling, outright lying, dueling, and gift-giving is a matter that Greenberg takes up in a fascinating and original way. The author looks at a range of situations when the words and gestures of honor came into play, and he re-creates the contexts and associations that once made them comprehensible. We understand, for example, the insult a navy lieutenant leveled at President Andrew Jackson when he pulls his nose, once we understand how a gentleman valued his face, especially his nose, as the symbol of his public image. Greenberg probes the lieutenant's motivations by explaining what it meant to perceive oneself as dishonored and how such a perception seemed comparable to being treated as a slave. When John Randolph lavished gifts on his friends and enemies as he calmly faced the prospect of death in a duel with Secretary of State Henry Clay, his generosity had a paternalistic meaning echoed by the master-slave relationship and reflected in the pro-slavery argument. These acts, together with the way a gentleman chose to lend money, drink with strangers, go hunting, and die, all formed a language of control, a vision of what it meant to live as a courageous free man. In reconstructing the language of honor in the Old South, Greenberg reconstructs the world.
Author: William Conant Church
Publisher:
Published: 1868
Total Pages: 1074
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Labor-Management Relations
Publisher:
Published: 1948
Total Pages: 1306
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Johnson
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2012-05-07
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 0807143987
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis biography chronicles the life of the long-serving Virginia congressman and architect of southern conservatism who courted controversy with his public duels and clashes with presidents, including Thomas Jefferson.
Author: Gregory May
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Published: 2023-04-11
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 132409222X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe untold saga of John Randolph’s 383 slaves, freed in his much-contested will of 1821, finally comes to light. Few legal cases in American history are as riveting as the controversy surrounding the will of Virginia Senator John Randolph (1773–1833), which—almost inexplicably—freed all 383 of his slaves in one of the largest and most publicized manumissions in American history. So famous is the case that Ta-Nehisi Coates has used it to condemn Randolph’s cousin, Thomas Jefferson, for failing to free his own slaves. With this groundbreaking investigation, historian Gregory May now reveals a more surprising story, showing how madness and scandal shaped John Randolph’s wildly shifting attitudes toward his slaves—and how endemic prejudice in the North ultimately deprived the freedmen of the land Randolph had promised them. Sweeping from the legal spectacle of the contested will through the freedmen’s dramatic flight and horrific reception in Ohio, A Madman’s Will is an extraordinary saga about the alluring promise of freedom and its tragic limitations.
Author: Rosemary Radford Ruether
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781451417807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew methodologies from social theory, cultural anthropology, and gender studies have emerged which take religion and cultural values into perspective. Particular light shed on social transformations, religious practices and theological perspectives.
Author: Caleb Harlan
Publisher:
Published: 1860
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13:
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