Author: Walter BuellPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385476836
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Joshua R. Giddings. A Sketch
Author: Walter BuellPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385476836
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Dissenting Voices in America's Rise to Power
Author: David MayersPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139463195
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
This book offers a major rereading of US foreign policy from Thomas Jefferson's purchase of Louisiana expanse to the Korean War. This period of one hundred and fifty years saw the expansion of the United States from fragile republic to transcontinental giant. David Mayers explores the dissenting voices which accompanied this dramatic ascent, focusing on dissenters within the political and military establishment and on the recurrent patterns of dissent that have transcended particular policies and crises. The most stubborn of these sprang from anxiety over the material and political costs of empire while other strands of dissent have been rooted in ideas of exigent justice, realpolitik, and moral duties existing beyond borders. Such dissent is evident again in the contemporary world when the US occupies the position of preeminent global power. Professor Mayers's study reminds us that America's path to power was not as straightforward as it might now seem.
Speech of Hon. Joshua R. Giddings, of Ohio, on the Oregon Question
Author: Joshua Reed GiddingsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oregon question
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Capitalism Takes Command
Author: Michael ZakimPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226451097
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Most scholarship on nineteenth-century America’s transformation into a market society has focused on consumption, romanticized visions of workers, and analysis of firms and factories. Building on but moving past these studies, Capitalism Takes Command presents a history of family farming, general incorporation laws, mortgage payments, inheritance practices, office systems, and risk management—an inventory of the means by which capitalism became America’s new revolutionary tradition. This multidisciplinary collection of essays argues not only that capitalism reached far beyond the purview of the economy, but also that the revolution was not confined to the destruction of an agrarian past. As business ceaselessly revised its own practices, a new demographic of private bankers, insurance brokers, investors in securities, and start-up manufacturers, among many others, assumed center stage, displacing older elites and forms of property. Explaining how capital became an “ism” and how business became a political philosophy, Capitalism Takes Command brings the economy back into American social and cultural history.
The Political Culture of the American Whigs
Author: Daniel Walker HowePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226354792
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Howe studies the American Whigs with the thoroughness so often devoted their party rivals, the Jacksonian Democrats. He shows that the Whigs were not just a temporary coalition of politicians but spokesmen for a heritage of political culture received from Anglo-American tradition and passed on, with adaptations, to the Whigs' Republican successors. He relates this culture to both the country's economic conditions and its ethnoreligious composition.
Speeches in Congress [1841-1852] by Joshua R. Giddings.
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Author: Joshua R. GiddingsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781425558789
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Antislavery Violence
Author: John R. McKiviganPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572330597
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
During the sixty years preceding the Civil War, violent means were often used to combat slavery in the United States. In this collection of essays, ten scholars explore the circumstances in which such violence arose, the aims of those responsible for it, and its impact on events of the day. Reflecting a variety of perspectives and approaches, this is the first book devoted exclusively to this important subject. Previous studies have concentrated on how white, northeastern, professedly nonviolent abolitionists sometimes endorsed or engaged in forceful action against slavery. This volume goes beyond that emphasis to examine the role of antislavery violence in a variety of regional, racial, ideological, and chronological contexts. Its broad focus includes southern slave rebels, antislavery women in Kansas, violent slave rescuers in Ohio, and northern antislavery politicians. Antislavery Violence challenges the notion that violence within the antislavery movement was unusual prior to the 1850s, showing that such violence in fact lay deep in American history and culture. It establishes that antislavery violence served to unite slavery's black and white enemies and reveals how antebellum concepts of gender played a role in the justification of or participation in such violence. Finally, by stressing the role of violence within the antislavery movement, the collection encourages a fresh appreciation of that movement as a major precursor to the much more violent Civil War. Seeking neither to condemn nor to glorify acts of political violence against slavery, these essays reveal them as a product of a particular time, culture, intellectual framework, and political environment. The book will challenge readers to ponder the subtlety, ambiguity, distaste, and exaltation with which Americans living a century and a half ago wrestled with the issue of reform through violent means. The Editors: John R. McKivigan is Mary O'Brien Gibson Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. He is the author of The War against Proslavery Religion: Abolitionism and the Northern Churches.Stanley Harrold is professor of history at South Carolina State University and the author of The Abolitionists and the South.
In Search of Justice
Author: Richard J. JensenPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789062039685
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Selections from the Speeches and Papers of James Humphrey Hoyt, 1850-1917
Author: James Humphrey HoytThe Literature of the Middle Western Frontier
Author: Ralph Leslie RuskPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description