Author: John SmithPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Hannah Logan's Courtship, a True Narrative
Author: John SmithGentlewomen and Learned Ladies
Author: Sarah FatherlyPublisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780934223942
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
"This book reveals the central role that women played in creating and perpetuating an elite class in the foremost city of colonial British America Early in the eighteenth century, as the city's major merchant families sought to reinforce their power over both newcomer immigrants and upwardly mobile middling sorts, they endeavored to remake themselves into a colonial version of the English gentry." "This book highlights how the intersection of gender and class identities powerfully shaped the lives of privileged women in colonial Philadelphia. This account is based on extensive archival research that includes women's letters and diaries, materials from cultural organizations, British prescriptive literature, Anglican and Quaker religious records, and newspapers. This important study offers fresh insights into colonial America, women's history, urban history, and the British Atlantic world."--BOOK JACKET.
Passion Is the Gale
Author: Nicole EustacePublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807838799
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
At the outset of the eighteenth century, many British Americans accepted the notion that virtuous sociable feelings occurred primarily among the genteel, while sinful and selfish passions remained the reflexive emotions of the masses, from lower-class whites to Indians to enslaved Africans. Yet by 1776 radicals would propose a new universal model of human nature that attributed the same feelings and passions to all humankind and made common emotions the basis of natural rights. In Passion Is the Gale, Nicole Eustace describes the promise and the problems of this crucial social and political transition by charting changes in emotional expression among countless ordinary men and women of British America. From Pennsylvania newspapers, pamphlets, sermons, correspondence, commonplace books, and literary texts, Eustace identifies the explicit vocabulary of emotion as a medium of human exchange. Alternating between explorations of particular emotions in daily social interactions and assessments of emotional rhetoric's functions in specific moments of historical crisis (from the Seven Years War to the rise of the patriot movement), she makes a convincing case for the pivotal role of emotion in reshaping power relations and reordering society in the critical decades leading up to the Revolution. As Eustace demonstrates, passion was the gale that impelled Anglo-Americans forward to declare their independence--collectively at first, and then, finally, as individuals.
Ploughs and Politicks
Author: Carl Raymond WoodwardPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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The Quakers in the American Colonies
Author: Rufus Matthew JonesPublisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Loving, Parenting, and Dying
Author: Vivian C. FoxPublisher: New York, N.Y. : Psychohistory Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Why Nantucket Quakers?
Author: Robert J. LeachPublisher:
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Category : Nantucket
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Rutgers University Studies in History
Author: Rutgers UniversityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Jeremiah Dummer, Colonial Craftsman & Merchant, 1645-1718
Author: Hermann Frederick ClarkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artisans
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Jeremiah Dummer
Author: Hermann Frederick ClarkePublisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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