Author: Samuel Mcpherson JanneyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Memoirs of Samuel M. Janney ... a Minister in the Religious Society of Friends, (written by Himself.) ...
Author: Samuel Mcpherson JanneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Memoirs of Samuel M. Janney
Author: Samuel Mcpherson JanneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Memoirs of Samuel M. Janney, Late of Lincoln, Loudoun County, Va
Author: Samuel Macpherson JanneyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Memoirs of Samuel M. Janney. Late of Lincoln, Loudoun County, VA. A Minister in the Religious Society of Friends
Author: Samuel M. JanneyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385439019
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Discovering Modernism
Author: Louis MenandPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190289473
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
When Discovering Modernism was first published, it shed new and welcome light on the birth of Modernism. This reissue of Menand's classic intellectual history of T.S. Eliot and the singular role he played in the rise of literary modernism features an updated Afterword by the author, as well as a detailed critical appraisal of the progression of Eliot's career as a poet and critic. The new Afterword was adapted from Menand's critically lauded essay on Eliot in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume Seven: Modernism and the New Criticism. Menand shows how Eliot's early views on literary value and authenticity, and his later repudiation of those views, reflect the profound changes regarding the understanding of literature and its significance that occurred in the early part of the twentieth century. It will prove an eye-opening study for readers with an interest in the writings of T.S. Eliot and other luminaries of the Modernist era.
Alphabetical Arrangement of Main Entries from the Shelf List
Author: Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.). LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
Life in Black and White
Author: Brenda E. StevensonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199923647
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Life in the old South has always fascinated Americans--whether in the mythical portrayals of the planter elite from fiction such as Gone With the Wind or in historical studies that look inside the slave cabin. Now Brenda E. Stevenson presents a reality far more gripping than popular legend, even as she challenges the conventional wisdom of academic historians. Life in Black and White provides a panoramic portrait of family and community life in and around Loudoun County, Virginia--weaving the fascinating personal stories of planters and slaves, of free blacks and poor-to-middling whites, into a powerful portrait of southern society from the mid-eighteenth century to the Civil War. Loudoun County and its vicinity encapsulated the full sweep of southern life. Here the region's most illustrious families--the Lees, Masons, Carters, Monroes, and Peytons--helped forge southern traditions and attitudes that became characteristic of the entire region while mingling with yeoman farmers of German, Scotch-Irish, and Irish descent, and free black families who lived alongside abolitionist Quakers and thousands of slaves. Stevenson brilliantly recounts their stories as she builds the complex picture of their intertwined lives, revealing how their combined histories guaranteed Loudon's role in important state, regional, and national events and controversies. Both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, for example, were hidden at a local plantation during the War of 1812. James Monroe wrote his famous "Doctrine" at his Loudon estate. The area also was the birthplace of celebrated fugitive slave Daniel Dangerfield, the home of John Janney, chairman of the Virginia secession convention, a center for Underground Railroad activities, and the location of John Brown's infamous 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry. In exploring the central role of the family, Brenda Stevenson offers a wealth of insight: we look into the lives of upper class women, who bore the oppressive weight of marriage and motherhood as practiced in the South and the equally burdensome roles of their husbands whose honor was tied to their ability to support and lead regardless of their personal preference; the yeoman farm family's struggle for respectability; and the marginal economic existence of free blacks and its undermining influence on their family life. Most important, Stevenson breaks new ground in her depiction of slave family life. Following the lead of historian Herbert Gutman, most scholars have accepted the idea that, like white, slaves embraced the nuclear family, both as a living reality and an ideal. Stevenson destroys this notion, showing that the harsh realities of slavery, even for those who belonged to such attentive masters as George Washington, allowed little possibility of a nuclear family. Far more important were extended kin networks and female headed households. Meticulously researched, insightful, and moving, Life in Black and White offers our most detailed portrait yet of the reality of southern life. It forever changes our understanding of family and race relations during the reign of the peculiar institution in the American South.
God's Government Begun
Author: Thomas D. HammPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253114716
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Growing out of the most radical fringes of the abolitionist movement, the Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform set out to inaugurate a new social order based on the principles of nonresistance. The Society founded eight utopian communities which, though short-lived, were the setting for the most radical questioning of antebellum American society. The members of the Society renounced all forms of coercive relationships. They attempted to live without government or private property and to model new visions of work, education, religion, economics, women's rights and roles, and community. This book tells the story of their impassioned attempt to transform the world and begin the "Government of God."
The Genealogist's Virtual Library
Author: Thomas Jay KempPublisher: Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources
ISBN: 9780842028646
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The growing availability of full-text books and journals on the Internet has made vast amounts of valuable genealogical information available at the touch of a button. The Genealogist's Virtual Library is a new volume that directs readers to the sites on the web that contain the full text of books.
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