Author: John SeldenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Titles of Honor
Author: John SeldenPeculiar Honors
Author: Sharon CumberlandPublisher:
ISBN: 9780930773991
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Peculiar Honors is a collection of poems about how things appear to be one way, then surprise us by being something else. There is an alternative reality that becomes visible only through the lens of poetry. What seems to be an egg, or a crossing signal, or a child sitting in a shopping cart turns out to be a portal into the unexpected. These poems are about things that seem dire or misconceived-a nephew's death, a detour into the wrong profession-but which are redeemed through reconstruction in poetry. Organized around quotes from Isaac Watts, the poems tackle big questions and small oddities with equal force, starting with Watts' prayer to Let every creature rise and bring/peculiar honors to our King. Each poem is a peculiar honor - a look through the ordinary to those strange, difficult, and triumphant things that poetry reveals.
The Peculiar Democracy
Author: Wallace HettlePublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820322827
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Too often, Wallace Hettle points out, studies of politics in the nineteenth-century South reinforce a view of the Democratic Party that is frozen in time on the eve of Fort Sumter--a deceptively high point of white racial solidarity. Avoiding such a "Civil War synthesis," The Peculiar Democracy illuminates the link between the Jacksonian political culture that dominated antebellum debate and the notorious infighting of the Confederacy. Hettle shows that war was the greatest test of populist Democratic Party rhetoric that emphasized the shared interests of white men, slaveholder and nonslaveholder alike. The Peculiar Democracy analyzes antebellum politics in terms of the connections between slavery, manhood, and the legacies of Jefferson and Jackson. It then looks at the secession crisis through the anxieties felt by Democratic politicians who claimed concern for the interests of both slaveholders and nonslaveholders. At the heart of the book is a collective biography of five individuals whose stories highlight the limitations of democratic political culture in a society dominated by the "peculiar institution." Through narratives informed by recent scholarship on gender, honor, class, and the law, Hettle profiles South Carolina's Francis W. Pickens, Georgia's Joseph Brown, Alabama's Jeremiah Clemens, Virginia's John Rutherfoord, and Mississippi's Jefferson Davis. The Civil War stories presented in The Peculiar Democracy illuminate the political and sometimes personal tragedy of men torn between a political culture based on egalitarian rhetoric and the wartime imperatives to defend slavery.
Topics of the Time
Author: James PartonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368140574
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels
Author: John Charles RylePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Sabbath Essays
Author: Will Converse WoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sabbath
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Abstract of General Orders and Proceedings of the ... Annual Encampment, Department of New York, Grand Army of the Republic
Author: Grand Army of the Republic. Department of New YorkPublisher:
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Hamilton, Lincoln & Other Addresses
Author: Melancthon Woolsey StrykerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Democratic Text-book
Author: Democratic National Committee (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Campaign literature
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels : St. John
Author: John Charles RylePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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