Author: Abiel Abbot LivermorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Lectures to Young Men on Their Moral Dangers and Duties
Author: Abiel Abbot LivermorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Lectures to Young Men on Their Dangers, Safeguards, and Responsibilities
Author: Rev. Daniel SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The Dangers and Duties of the Young Men of Victoria ... Lecture Delivered Before the Victoria Early Closing Association, Etc
Author: Adam CAIRNSBowing to Necessities
Author: C. Dallett HemphillPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190284315
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Anglo-Americans wrestled with some profound cultural contradictions as they shifted from the hierarchical and patriarchal society of the seventeenth-century frontier to the modern and fluid class democracy of the mid-nineteenth century. How could traditional inequality be maintained in the socially leveling environment of the early colonial wilderness? And how could nineteenth-century Americans pretend to be equal in an increasingly unequal society? Bowing to Necessities argues that manners provided ritual solutions to these central cultural problems by allowing Americans to act out--and thus reinforce--power relations just as these relations underwent challenges. Analyzing the many sermons, child-rearing guides, advice books, and etiquette manuals that taught Americans how to behave, this book connects these instructions to individual practices and personal concerns found in contemporary diaries and letters. It also illuminates crucial connections between evolving class, age, and gender relations. A social and cultural history with a unique and fascinating perspective, Hemphill's wide-ranging study offers readers a panorama of America's social customs from colonial times to the Civil War.
The Works of Henry Ware, Jr: Sermons ... to which are added his work on the Formation of Christian character, and his Sequel to the same
Author: Henry WareChristian Examiner and Theological Review
Author: Readings for Young Men, Merchants, and Men of Business
Author: Wiley and Putnam's Literary News-letter, and Monthly Register of New Books, Foreign and American
Author: Finding List of the Apprentices' Library Established and Maintained by the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York
Author: General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York. Apprentices' LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
In the Watches of the Night
Author: Peter C. BaldwinPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226036030
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, new technologies began to light up streets, sidewalks, buildings, and public spaces. Peter C. Baldwin’s evocative book depicts the changing experience of the urban night over this period, visiting a host of actors—scavengers, newsboys, and mashers alike—in the nocturnal city. Baldwin examines work, crime, transportation, and leisure as he moves through the gaslight era, exploring the spread of modern police forces and the emergence of late-night entertainment, to the era of electricity, when social campaigns sought to remove women and children from public areas at night. While many people celebrated the transition from darkness to light as the arrival of twenty-four hours of daytime, Baldwin shows that certain social patterns remained, including the danger of street crime and the skewed gender profile of night work. Sweeping us from concert halls and brothels to streetcars and industrial forges, In the Watches of the Night is an illuminating study of a vital era in American urban history.