Author: David RamsayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
History of the United States, from Their First Settlement as English Colonies, in 1607, to the Year 1808, Or the Thirty-third of Their Sovereignty and Independence
Author: David RamsayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
History of the United States from Their First Settlement as English Colonies in 1607 to the Year 1808 ...
Author: David RamsayHistory of the United States
Author: David RamsayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
History of the United States from their first Settlement as english Coloniès in the year 1607 to the year 1608
Author: David RamsayHistory of the United States
Author: David RamsayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Slavery & Race in American Popular Culture
Author: William L. Van DeburgPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299096342
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Spanning more than three centuries, from the colonial era to the present, Van Deburg's overview analyzes the works of American historians, dramatists, novelists, poets, lyricists, and filmmakers -- and exposes, through those artists' often disquieting perceptions, the cultural underpinnings of American current racial attitudes and divisions. Crucial to Van Deburg's analysis is his contrast of black and white attitudes toward the Afro-American slave experience. There has, in fact, been a persistent dichotomy between the two races' literary, historical, and theatrical representations of slavery. If white culture-makers have stressed the "unmanning" of the slaves and encouraged such steteotypes as the Noble Savage and the comic minstrel to justify the blacks' subordination, Afro-Americans have emphasized a counter self-image that celebrates the slaves' creativity, dignity, pride, and assertiveness. ISBN 0-299-09634-3 (pbk.) : $12.50.
Catalogue of the Library of the U. S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y..
Author: United States Military Academy. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
History in the United States, 1800-1860
Author: George H. CallcottPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421431041
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Originally published in 1970. Professor Callcott's analysis of the rise of historical consciousness in the United States from 1800 to 1860 offers a new dimension to American historiography. Other books have provided insight into the works of Bancroft, Parkman, and others, but Callcott goes beyond to explain the meaning of the past itself rather than the contributions of particular historians. As the anatomy of an idea, this is an important contribution to American intellectual history; and as a study of humans' need for the past and their use of it, it is an important contribution to American social history. The author begins by analyzing the European and Romantic background for American historical thought. He then explores the rise of historical themes in literature, education, the arts, and scholarship. By describing the type of historical subject matter, the methods of writing history, the interpretive themes historians used, and the standards by which critics judged history, Callcott offers a new understanding of the social and personal meaning that history had for Americans at the time. The American people were especially convinced of the utility of history—its social use in supporting accepted values, its personal utility in extending human experience, and its philosophical value in pointing people toward ultimate reality. The idea of history possessed a remarkable coherence that reflected the preoccupations and aspirations of the young nation. Callcott also demonstrates, however, that when basic historical assumptions were challenged by controversy, the entire edifice collapsed.
The History and Government of the United States
Author: Faith and Slavery in the Presbyterian Diaspora
Author: William Harrison TaylorPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611462029
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Faith and Slavery in the Presbyterian Diaspora considers how, in areas as diverse as the New Hebrides, Scotland, the United States, and East Central Africa, men’s and women’s shared Presbyterian faith conditioned their interpretations of and interactions with the institution of chattel slavery. The chapters highlight how Presbyterians’ reactions to slavery –which ranged from abolitionism, to indifference, to support—reflected their considered application of the principles of the Reformed Tradition to the institution. Consequently, this collection reveals how the particular ways in which Presbyterians framed the Reformed Tradition made slavery an especially problematic and fraught issue for adherents to the faith. Faith and Slavery, by situating slavery at the nexus of Presbyterian theology and practice, offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between religion and slavery. It reverses the all too common assumption that religion primarily served to buttress existing views on slavery, by illustrating how groups’ and individuals reactions to slavery emerged from their understanding of the Presbyterian faith. The collection’s geographic reach—encompassing the experiences of people from Europe, Africa, America, and the Pacific—filtered through the lens of Presbyterianism also highlights the global dimensions of slavery and the debates surrounding it. The institution and the challenges it presented, Faith and Slavery stresses, reflected less the peculiar conditions of a particular place and time, than the broader human condition as people attempt to understand and shape their world.