Author: Daniel WebsterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Compromise of 1850
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Webster and Hayne's Speeches in the United States Senate, on Mr. Foot's Resolution of January 1830
Author: Daniel WebsterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Compromise of 1850
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The Webster-Hayne Debate
Author: Stefan M. BrooksPublisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 0761843051
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
In January 1830, a debate on the nature of sovereignty in the American federal union occurred in the United States Senate between Senators Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and Robert Hayne of South Carolina. This debate exposed the critically different understandings of the nature of the American union that, by 1830, had developed between the North and the South and would ultimately lead to civil war in 1861.
South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine
Author: The South Carolina Historical Magazine
Author: The Webster-Hayne Debate
Author: Christopher ChildersPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN: 1421426153
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In this illuminating history, a senatorial debate about states’ rights exemplifies the growing rift within pre-Civil War America. Two generations after the founding, Americans still disagreed on the nature of the Union. Was it a confederation of sovereign states or a nation headed by a central government? To South Carolina Senator Robert Y. Hayne, only the vigilant protection of states’ rights could hold off an attack on a southern way of life built on slavery. Meanwhile, Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster believed that the political and economic ascendancy of New England—and the nation—required a strong, activist national government. In The Webster-Hayne Debate, historian Christopher Childers examines a sharp dispute in January 1830 that came to define the dilemma of America’s national identity. During Senate discussion of western land policy, the senators’ increasingly heated exchanges led to the question of union—its nature and its value in a federal republic. Childers argues that both Webster and Hayne, and the factions they represented, saw the West as key to the success of their political plans and sought to cultivate western support for their ideas. A short, accessible account of the conflict and the related issues it addressed, The Webster-Hayne Debate captures an important moment in the early republic.
The Children of Jocasta
Author: Natalie HaynesPublisher: Europa Editions
ISBN: 1609454812
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
“[A] dark, elegant novel” of two women in ancient Greece, based on the great tragedies of Sophocles (Publishers Weekly). Thebes is a city in mourning, still reeling from a devastating plague that invaded every home and left the survivors devastated and fearful. This is the Thebes that Jocasta has known her entire life, a city ruled by a king—her husband-to-be. Jocasta struggles through this miserable marriage until she is unexpectedly widowed. Now free to choose her next husband, she selects the handsome, youthful Oedipus. When whispers emerge of an unbearable scandal, the very society that once lent Jocasta its support seems determined to destroy her. Ismene is a girl in mourning, longing for the golden days of her youth, days spent lolling in the courtyard garden, reading and reveling in her parents’ happiness and love. Now she is an orphan and the target of a murder plot, attacked within the very walls of the palace. As the deadly political competition swirls around her, she must uncover the root of the plot—and reveal the truth of the curse that has consumed her family. The novel is based on Oedipus Tyrannus and Antigone, two of Classical Greece’s most compelling tragedies. Told in intersecting narratives, this reimagining of Sophocles’s classic plays brings life and voice to the women who were too often forced to the background of their own stories. “After two and a half millennia of near silence, Jocasta and Ismene are finally given a chance to speak . . . Haynes’s Thebes is vividly captured. In her excellent new novel, she harnesses the mutability of myth.” —The Guardian
The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine
Author: South Carolina Historical and Geneaological Magazine
Author: A Complete Memoir of Richard Haines (1633-1685), a Forgotten Sussex Worthy, with a Full Account of His Ancestry and Posterity ...
Author: Charles Reginald HainesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Crocker-Langley San Francisco Directory
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : San Francisco (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
Book Description