Author: University of Pennsylvania. Society of the AlumniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
The History of American Colleges and Their Libraries in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Author: David S. ZubatskyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Biographical Catalogue of the Matriculates of Haverford College
Author: Haverford College. Alumni AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
A List of Cyclopedias and Dictionaries
Author: John Crerar LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Church Leader in the Cities
Author: Alvin W. SkardonPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512818739
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Citizen Bachelors
Author: John Gilbert McCurdyPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801457807
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
In 1755 Benjamin Franklin observed "a man without a wife is but half a man" and since then historians have taken Franklin at his word. In Citizen Bachelors, John Gilbert McCurdy demonstrates that Franklin's comment was only one side of a much larger conversation. Early Americans vigorously debated the status of unmarried men and this debate was instrumental in the creation of American citizenship. In a sweeping examination of the bachelor in early America, McCurdy fleshes out a largely unexamined aspect of the history of gender. Single men were instrumental to the settlement of the United States and for most of the seventeenth century their presence was not particularly problematic. However, as the colonies matured, Americans began to worry about those who stood outside the family. Lawmakers began to limit the freedoms of single men with laws requiring bachelors to pay higher taxes and face harsher penalties for crimes than married men, while moralists began to decry the sexual immorality of unmarried men. But many resisted these new tactics, including single men who reveled in their hedonistic reputations by delighting in sexual horseplay without marital consequences. At the time of the Revolution, these conflicting views were confronted head-on. As the incipient American state needed men to stand at the forefront of the fight for independence, the bachelor came to be seen as possessing just the sort of political, social, and economic agency associated with citizenship in a democratic society. When the war was won, these men demanded an end to their unequal treatment, sometimes grudgingly, and the citizen bachelor was welcomed into American society. Drawing on sources as varied as laws, diaries, political manifestos, and newspapers, McCurdy shows that in the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the bachelor was a simultaneously suspicious and desirable figure: suspicious because he was not tethered to family and household obligations yet desirable because he was free to study, devote himself to political office, and fight and die in battle. He suggests that this dichotomy remains with us to this day and thus it is in early America that we find the origins of the modern-day identity of the bachelor as a symbol of masculine independence. McCurdy also observes that by extending citizenship to bachelors, the founders affirmed their commitment to individual freedom, a commitment that has subsequently come to define the very essence of American citizenship.
Occasional Papers
Author: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Graduate School of Library SciencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Information science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
Author: Catalogue of the California State Library
Author: California State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Thomas McKean, Forgotten Leader of the Revolution
Author: John M. ColemanPublisher: Rockaway, N.J. : American Faculty Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description