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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Subject index
Author: Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
Author: In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes
Author: David WaldstreicherPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807838551
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
In this innovative study, David Waldstreicher investigates the importance of political festivals in the early American republic. Drawing on newspapers, broadsides, diaries, and letters, he shows how patriotic celebrations and their reproduction in a rapidly expanding print culture helped connect local politics to national identity. Waldstreicher reveals how Americans worked out their political differences in creating a festive calendar. Using the Fourth of July as a model, members of different political parties and social movements invented new holidays celebrating such events as the ratification of the Constitution, Washington's birthday, Jefferson's inauguration, and the end of the slave trade. They used these politicized rituals, he argues, to build constituencies and to make political arguments on a national scale. While these celebrations enabled nonvoters to participate intimately in the political process and helped dissenters forge effective means of protest, they had their limits as vehicles of democratization or modes of citizenship, Waldstreicher says. Exploring the interplay of region, race, class, and gender in the development of a national identity, he demonstrates that an acknowledgment of the diversity and conflict inherent in the process is crucial to any understanding of American politics and culture.
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Author index
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Place index
Author: A Memoir of the Rev. Cotton Mather, D. D.
Author: Samuel G. DrakeA Review of Winthrop's Journal
Author: Samuel G. DrakeHistory of the Colony of New Haven, Before and After the Union with Connecticut
Author: Edward Rodolphus LambertPublisher:
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Category : Branford (Conn. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
An Oration, Pronounced at Groton, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the Fourth of July, A.D. 1807, in Commemoration of the Independence of the United States of America, Before the Republican Citizens of the Town of Groton, and the Vicinity ...
Author: Samuel DanaPublisher:
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Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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