Author: James D. HOPKINS (of Portland, U.S.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
An oration pronounced before the inhabitants of Portland, July 4th, 1805, in commemoration of American independence
Author: James D. HOPKINS (of Portland, U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review
Author: The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review
Author: David Phineas AdamsThe Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review
Author: Samuel Cooper ThacherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Vols. 3-4 include appendix: "The Political cabinet."
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Subject index
Author: A Bibliography of the State of Maine from the Earliest Period to 1891
Author: Joseph WilliamsonPublisher:
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Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
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.
Revolutionary Backlash
Author: Rosemarie ZagarriPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812205553
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The Seneca Falls Convention is typically seen as the beginning of the first women's rights movement in the United States. Revolutionary Backlash argues otherwise. According to Rosemarie Zagarri, the debate over women's rights began not in the decades prior to 1848 but during the American Revolution itself. Integrating the approaches of women's historians and political historians, this book explores changes in women's status that occurred from the time of the American Revolution until the election of Andrew Jackson. Although the period after the Revolution produced no collective movement for women's rights, women built on precedents established during the Revolution and gained an informal foothold in party politics and male electoral activities. Federalists and Jeffersonians vied for women's allegiance and sought their support in times of national crisis. Women, in turn, attended rallies, organized political activities, and voiced their opinions on the issues of the day. After the publication of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, a widespread debate about the nature of women's rights ensued. The state of New Jersey attempted a bold experiment: for a brief time, women there voted on the same terms as men. Yet as Rosemarie Zagarri argues in Revolutionary Backlash, this opening for women soon closed. By 1828, women's politicization was seen more as a liability than as a strength, contributing to a divisive political climate that repeatedly brought the country to the brink of civil war. The increasing sophistication of party organizations and triumph of universal suffrage for white males marginalized those who could not vote, especially women. Yet all was not lost. Women had already begun to participate in charitable movements, benevolent societies, and social reform organizations. Through these organizations, women found another way to practice politics.
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
Author: Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description