Author: Francis Preston Blair (Jr.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Speech of Hon. Francis P. Blair, Jr., of Missouri, on the Kansas Question
Author: Francis Preston Blair (Jr.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Speech of Hon. Francis P. Blair, Jr., of Missouri, on the Kansas Question
Author: Frank Preston BlairPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
The Age of Questions
Author: Holly CasePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691210373
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A groundbreaking history of the Big Questions that dominated the nineteenth century In the early nineteenth century, a new age began: the age of questions. In the Eastern and Belgian questions, as much as in the slavery, worker, social, woman, and Jewish questions, contemporaries saw not interrogatives to be answered but problems to be solved. Alexis de Tocqueville, Victor Hugo, Karl Marx, Frederick Douglass, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Rosa Luxemburg, and Adolf Hitler were among the many who put their pens to the task. The Age of Questions asks how the question form arose, what trajectory it followed, and why it provoked such feverish excitement for over a century. Was there a family resemblance between questions? Have they disappeared, or are they on the rise again in our time? In this pioneering book, Holly Case undertakes a stunningly original analysis, presenting, chapter by chapter, seven distinct arguments and frameworks for understanding the age. She considers whether it was marked by a progressive quest for emancipation (of women, slaves, Jews, laborers, and others); a steady, inexorable march toward genocide and the "Final Solution"; or a movement toward federation and the dissolution of boundaries. Or was it simply a farce, a false frenzy dreamed up by publicists eager to sell subscriptions? As the arguments clash, patterns emerge and sharpen until the age reveals its full and peculiar nature. Turning convention on its head with meticulous and astonishingly broad scholarship, The Age of Questions illuminates how patterns of thinking move history.
Calendar of the Papers of Martin Van Buren
Author: Library of Congress. Manuscript DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Martin Van Buren Papers
Author: Martin Van BurenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
The Line of Duty
Author: Johanna Nicol ShieldsPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The Congressional Globe
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: To Govern the Devil in Hell
Author: Pearl PoncePublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1609091590
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
One hundred and fifty years after Kansas was admitted to the Union, we still find ourselves fascinated by the specter of "Bleeding Kansas" and the violence that preceded the American Civil War by five years. Although ample attention has been devoted to understanding why territorial violence broke out in Kansas in 1856, of equal concern but less illuminated is the question of why government, both local and national, allowed the violence to continue unstanched for so long. This question is fundamentally about governance-its existence, exercise, limits, and continuance-and its study has ramifications for understanding both Kansas events and why the American experiment in government failed in 1861. In addition, the book also sheds light on the nature of democracy, the challenges of implanting it in distant environs, the necessity of cooperation at the various levels of government, and the value of strong leadership. To Govern the Devil in Hell uses the prism of governance to investigate what went wrong in territorial Kansas. From the first elections in late 1854 and early 1855, local government was tarnished with cries of illegitimacy that territorial officials could not ameliorate. Soon after, a shadow government was created which further impeded local management of territorial challenges. Ultimately, this book addresses why Presidents Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan failed to act, what hindered Congress from stepping into the void, and why and how the lack of effective governance harmed Kansas and later the United States.
Author: Matthew Carey