Author: Calvin ColtonPublisher:
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Category : Revivals
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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History and Character of American Revivals of Religion
Author: Calvin ColtonPublisher:
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Category : Revivals
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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The Character of American History
Author: NA NAPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349816221
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
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History of the Rise, Progress, Genius, and Character of American Presbyterianism
Author: William HillAmerican Character
Author: Colin WoodardPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698181719
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The author of American Nations examines the history of and solutions to the key American question: how best to reconcile individual liberty with the maintenance of a free society The struggle between individual rights and the good of the community as a whole has been the basis of nearly every major disagreement in our history, from the debates at the Constitutional Convention and in the run up to the Civil War to the fights surrounding the agendas of the Federalists, the Progressives, the New Dealers, the civil rights movement, and the Tea Party. In American Character, Colin Woodard traces these two key strands in American politics through the four centuries of the nation’s existence, from the first colonies through the Gilded Age, Great Depression and the present day, and he explores how different regions of the country have successfully or disastrously accommodated them. The independent streak found its most pernicious form in the antebellum South but was balanced in the Gilded Age by communitarian reform efforts; the New Deal was an example of a successful coalition between communitarian-minded Eastern elites and Southerners. Woodard argues that maintaining a liberal democracy, a society where mass human freedom is possible, requires finding a balance between protecting individual liberty and nurturing a free society. Going to either libertarian or collectivist extremes results in tyranny. But where does the “sweet spot” lie in the United States, a federation of disparate regional cultures that have always strongly disagreed on these issues? Woodard leads readers on a riveting and revealing journey through four centuries of struggle, experimentation, successes and failures to provide an answer. His historically informed and pragmatic suggestions on how to achieve this balance and break the nation’s political deadlock will be of interest to anyone who cares about the current American predicament—political, ideological, and sociological.
History of the American Revolution, With a Preliminary View of the Character and Principles of the Colonists, and Their Controversies With Great Britain
Author: Samuel Farmer WilsonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385112850
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
John Angell James; a review of his history, character, eloquence, and literary labours
Author: John CampbellNarrative and Critical History of America: The United States of America, 1775-1782: their political struggles and relations with Europe
Author: Justin WinsorPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 7, Prose Writing, 1940-1990
Author: Sacvan BercovitchPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521497329
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Volume VII of the Cambridge History of American Literature examines a broad range of American literature of the past half-century, revealing complex relations to changes in society. Christopher Bigsby discusses American dramatists from Tennessee Williams to August Wilson, showing how innovations in theatre anticipated a world of emerging countercultures and provided America with an alternative view of contemporary life. Morris Dickstein describes the condition of rebellion in fiction from 1940 to 1970, linking writers as diverse as James Baldwin and John Updike. John Burt examines writers of the American South, describing the tensions between modernization and continued entanglements with the past. Wendy Steiner examines the postmodern fictions since 1970, and shows how the questioning of artistic assumptions has broadened the canon of American literature. Finally, Cyrus Patell highlights the voices of Native American, Asian American, Chicano, gay and lesbian writers, often marginalized but here discussed within and against a broad set of national traditions.
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