Author: American Antiquarian SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society
Author: American Antiquarian SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society
Author: American Antiquarian SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The Practice of Citizenship
Author: Derrick R. SpiresPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812295773
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
In the years between the American Revolution and the U.S. Civil War, as legal and cultural understandings of citizenship became more racially restrictive, black writers articulated an expansive, practice-based theory of citizenship. Grounded in political participation, mutual aid, critique and revolution, and the myriad daily interactions between people living in the same spaces, citizenship, they argued, is not defined by who one is but, rather, by what one does. In The Practice of Citizenship, Derrick R. Spires examines the parallel development of early black print culture and legal and cultural understandings of U.S. citizenship, beginning in 1787, with the framing of the federal Constitution and the founding of the Free African Society by Absalom Jones and Richard Allen, and ending in 1861, with the onset of the Civil War. Between these two points he recovers understudied figures such as William J. Wilson, whose 1859 "Afric-American Picture Gallery" appeared in seven installments in The Anglo-African Magazine, and the physician, abolitionist, and essayist James McCune Smith. He places texts such as the proceedings of black state conventions alongside considerations of canonical figures such as Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Frederick Douglass. Reading black print culture as a space where citizenship was both theorized and practiced, Spires reveals the degree to which concepts of black citizenship emerged through a highly creative and diverse community of letters, not easily reducible to representative figures or genres. From petitions to Congress to Frances Harper's parlor fiction, black writers framed citizenship both explicitly and implicitly, the book demonstrates, not simply as a response to white supremacy but as a matter of course in the shaping of their own communities and in meeting their own political, social, and cultural needs.
Underwriters of the United States
Author: Hannah FarberPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469663643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The international information they gathered and the capital they generated enabled them to play central roles in state building and economic development. During the Revolution, they helped the U.S. negotiate foreign loans, sell state debts, and establish a single national bank. Afterward, they increased their influence by lending money to the federal government and to its citizens. Even as federal and state governments began to encroach on their domain, maritime insurers adapted, preserving their autonomy and authority through extensive involvement in the formation of commercial law. Leveraging their claims to unmatched expertise, they operated free from government interference while simultaneously embedding themselves into the nation's institutional fabric. By the early nineteenth century, insurers were no longer just risk assessors. They were nation builders and market makers. Deeply and imaginatively researched, Underwriters of the United States uses marine insurers to reveal a startlingly original story of risk, money, and power in the founding era.
Archaeologia Americana
Author: American Antiquarian SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian Society
Author: American Antiquarian SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Index to the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 1812-1961
Author: Clifford Kenyon ShiptonPublisher: Worcester, MA : American Antiquarian Society
ISBN:
Category : American Antiquarian Society. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society--Indexes
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Perspectives on American Book History
Author: Scott E. CasperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
CD-ROM contains: Digital image archive of books, magazines, manuscripts, technologies, and readers to accompany text.
The Hornbook and Its Use in America
Author: George Arthur PlimptonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hornbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A Catalogue of Books in the Library of the American Antiquarian Society
Author: American Antiquarian SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Collection includes about 8,000 vols. donated by Isaiah Thomas, founder of the Society. The catalogue is "almost wholly the work of the late lamented librarian, Christopher C. Baldwin ... completed and brought up to the present date by ... Maturin L. Fisher."