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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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The New World
Author: Patriot Fires
Author: Melinda LawsonPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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The Civil War is often credited with giving birth to the modern American state. The demands of warfare led to the centralization of business and industry and to an unprecedented expansion of federal power. But the Civil War did more than that: as Melinda Lawson shows, it brought about a change in American national identity, redefining the relationship between the individual and the government. Though much has been written about the Civil War and the making of the political and economic American nation, this is the first comprehensive study of the role that the war played in the shaping of the cultural and ideological nation-state. In Patriot Fires, Lawson explains how, when threatened by the rebellious South, the North came together as a nation and mobilized its populace for war. With no formal government office to rally citizens, the job of defining the war in patriotic terms fell largely to private individuals or associations, each with their own motives and methods. Lawson explores how these "interpreters" of the war helped instill in Americans a new understanding of loyalty to country. Through efforts such as sanitary fairs to promote the welfare of soldiers, the war bond drives of Jay Cooke, and the establishment of Union Leagues, Northerners cultivated a new sense of patriotism rooted not just in the subjective American idea, but in existing religious, political, and cultural values. Moreover, Democrats and Republicans, Abolitionists, and Abraham Lincoln created their own understandings of American patriotism and national identity, raising debates over the meaning of the American "idea" to new heights. Examining speeches, pamphlets, pageants, sermons, and assemblies, Lawson shows how citizens and organizations constructed a new kind of nationalism based on a nation of Americans rather than a union of states—a European-styled nationalism grounded in history and tradition and celebrating the preeminence of the nation-state. Original in its insights and innovative in its approach, Patriot Fires is an impressive work of cultural and intellectual history. As America engages in new conflicts around the globe, Lawson shows us that issues addressed by nation builders of the nineteenth century are relevant once again as the meaning of patriotism continues to be explored.
Our Shadowed World
Author: Dominic KirkhamPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532661738
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Civilization is often equated with the story of human advancement and progress. Yet it is also the story of human oppression, exploitation, war, and empire. In our own time, modern global civilization has brought us to the brink of planetary destruction. By offering an understanding of our past, this book aims to provide a stimulus to considering a different future. Our Shadowed World considers how we have been brought to this point. It describes how the fragmented and conflicted state of humanity has “progressed” from the earliest city-states to the devastation of world war and holocaust—how civilization has brought its own form of savagery. What beliefs have underlain and motivated human action? How have humans tried to understand their world? Driven by the relentless quest for power, by greed, and by extreme beliefs, the human enterprise today has placed the very idea of civilization under threat, the subject of radical questioning. Despite a new ecological awareness dedicated to saving the planet from civilization’s carelessness, and a preoccupation with the nature of apocalyptic thinking, a question mark looms over the very survival of humanity in its present state—a question mark that now overshadows the world.
How India's Intellectuals Spread Lies (2nd Edition)
Author: Ravi Shanker KapoorPublisher: Vision Books
ISBN: 817094922X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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The New World
Author: Park BenjaminThe London Quarterly Review
Author: The London Quarterly Review
Author: William Lonsdale WatkinsonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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The dangers and duties of the present time: the substance of 2 lectures
Author: Edward Rupert HumphreysPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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The Dangers and Duties of the Present Time
Author: Edward Rupert HumphreysPublisher:
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Category : Anglo-Saxons
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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The Dangers and Duties of the Present Time: Being the Substance of Two Lectures, Etc
Author: Edward Rupert HUMPHREYSPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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