The Many-Faceted Jacksonian Era
Author: Edward Pessen
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1977-10-28
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13:
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Historical Dictionary of the Old South
Author: William Lee Richter
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 081087914X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe South played a prominent role in early American history, and its position was certainly strong and proud except for the "peculiar institution" of slavery. Thus, it drew away from the rest of an expanding nation, and in 1861 declared secession and developed a Confederacy... that ultimately lost the war. Indeed, for some time it was occupied. Thus, the South has a very mixed legacy, with good and bad aspects, and sometimes the two of them mixed. Which only enhances the need for a careful and balanced approach. This can be found in the Historical Dictionary of the Old South, which first traces its history from colonial times to the end of the Civil War in a substantial chronology. Particularly interesting is the introduction, which analyzes the rise and the fall, the good and the bad, as well as the middling and indifferent, over nigh on two centuries. The details are filled in very amply in over 600 dictionary entries on the politics, economy, society and culture of the Old South. An ample bibliography directs students and researchers toward other sources of information.
The A to Z of the Old South
Author: William L. Richter
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2009-08-20
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 0810870002
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeing considerably different from other regions of the country, most notably regarding its fervent practice of slavery, the land south of the Mason-Dixon line, because of slavery, enjoyed an exceptional prominence in politics, and after the invention of the cotton gin, a high degree of prosperity. However, also because of slavery, it was alienated from the rest of the nation, attempted to secede from the union, and was forced back in only after it lost the Civil War. Numerous cross-referenced entries on prominent individuals, including Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Robert E. Lee, and Abraham Lincoln, as well as others on policies of the time that have since slipped into oblivion are all covered in this book. Economic, social and religious backgrounds trace the seemingly inevitable path to secession, war, and defeat. This reference also includes an introductory essay, a chronology, and a bibliography of the epoch.
Faith and the Professions
Author: Thomas L. Shaffer
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1987-12-15
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1438419465
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThomas L. Shaffer argues that the morals of modern American lawyers and doctors have been corrupted by misguided professionalism and weak philosophy. He shows that professional codes exalt vocational principle over the traditional morals of character; but that, in practice, America's professionals and business people cultivate the ethics of character. The ethics of virtue have been neglected. The ethical argument in Faith and the Professions is in part an application to professional life of the position taken by Alasdair MacIntyre in After Virtue and in Revisions, and by Robert Bellah and his collaborators in Habits of the Heart. It is also, in part, an argument for the relevance of religious ethics.
Riots, Republicanism, and Citizenship
Author: Marco A. Pamplona
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-12-12
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1000525309
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1996. This book is an analysis of the different conceptions of citizenship displayed by elite republican rhetoric in the press when commenting on riots in New York City and in the City of Rio de Janeiro during the consolidation of the republican order in the United States and in Brazil.
Visions of History
Author: Edward Palmer Thompson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780719010675
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMiddle Class Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Author: L. Young
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2002-12-19
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0230598811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on expressive and material culture, Young shows that money was not enough to make the genteel middle class. It required exquisite self-control and the right cultural capital to perform ritual etiquette and present oneself confidently, yet modestly. She argues that genteel culture was not merely derivative, but a re-working of aristocratic standards in the context of the middle class necessity to work. Visible throughout the English-speaking world in the 1780s -1830s and onward, genteel culture reveals continuities often obscured by studies based entirely on national frameworks.
Imagining Transatlantic Slavery
Author: C. Kaplan
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-01-20
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 0230277101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis exciting interdisciplinary volume, featuring contributions from a group of leading international scholars, reflects on the long history of representations of transatlantic slaves and slavery, encompassing a broad chronological range, from the eighteenth century to the present day.
To Live in the New World
Author: Judith K. Major
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780262133319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile most historians and critics have focused on the treatise, Judith Major gives equal emphasis to Downing's spirited monthly editorials in the Horticulturist. In the journal, Downing "spoke American" and encouraged his countrymen and women to practice economy, to use America's rich natural resources wisely yet artfully, to be content with a little cottage and a few fine native trees.
The A to Z of the Jacksonian Era and Manifest Destiny
Author: Terry Corps
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2009-07-27
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 0810870169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe brief period from 1829 to 1849 was one of the most important in American history. During just two decades, the American government was strengthened, the political system consolidated, and the economy diversified. All the while literature and the arts, the press and philanthropy, urbanization, and religious revivalism sparked other changes. The belief in Manifest Destiny simultaneously caused expansion across the continent and the wretched treatment of the Native Americans, while arguments over slavery slowly tore a rift in the country as sectional divisions grew and a national crisis became almost inevitable. The A to Z of the Jacksonian Era and Manifest Destiny takes a close look at these sensitive years. Through a chronology that traces events year-by-year and sometimes even month-by-month actions are clearly delineated. The introduction summarizes the major trends of the epoch and the four administrations therein. The details are then supplied in several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries, and the bibliography concludes this essential tool for anyone interested in history.
