Author: Ralph Leslie RuskPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Literature of the Middle Western Frontier
Author: Ralph Leslie RuskPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
American Imprints Inventory: Kentucky, 1811-1820
Author: Historical Records Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
American Bibliography: Items 1-50192
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Author index also includes a list of corrections.
An American Almanac and Treasury of Facts, Statistical, Financial, and Political, for the Year ...
Author: Ainsworth Rand SpoffordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Author index
Author: Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Date index
Author: The Passions of Andrew Jackson
Author: Andrew BursteinPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030742913X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Most people vaguely imagine Andrew Jackson as a jaunty warrior and a man of the people, but he was much more—a man just as complex and controversial as Jefferson or Lincoln. Now, with the first major reinterpretation of his life in a generation, historian Andrew Burstein brings back Jackson with all his audacity and hot-tempered rhetoric. The unabashedly aggressive Jackson came of age in the Carolinas during the American Revolution, migrating to Tennessee after he was orphaned at the age of fourteen. Little more than a poorly educated frontier bully when he first opened his public career, he was possessed of a controlling sense of honor that would lead him into more than one duel. As a lover, he fled to Spanish Mississippi with his wife-to-be before she was divorced. Yet when he was declared a national hero upon his stunning victory at the Battle of New Orleans, Jackson suddenly found the presidency within his grasp. How this brash frontiersman took Washington by storm makes a fascinating story, and Burstein tells it thoughtfully and expertly. In the process he reveals why Jackson was so fiercely loved (and fiercely hated) by the American people, and how his presidency came to shape the young country’s character.
Selling Antislavery
Author: Teresa A. GodduPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812296966
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Beginning with its establishment in the early 1830s, the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) recognized the need to reach and consolidate a diverse and increasingly segmented audience. To do so, it produced a wide array of print, material, and visual media: almanacs and slave narratives, pincushions and gift books, broadsides and panoramas. Building on the distinctive practices of British antislavery and evangelical reform movements, the AASS utilized innovative business strategies to market its productions and developed a centralized distribution system to circulate them widely. In Selling Antislavery, Teresa A. Goddu shows how the AASS operated at the forefront of a new culture industry and, by framing its media as cultural commodities, made antislavery sentiments an integral part of an emerging middle-class identity. She contends that, although the AASS's dominance waned after 1840 as the organization splintered, it nevertheless created one of the first national mass markets. Goddu maps this extensive media culture, focusing in particular on the material produced by AASS in the decade of the 1830s. She considers how the dissemination of its texts, objects, and tactics was facilitated by the quasi-corporate and centralized character of the organization during this period and demonstrates how its institutional presence remained important to the progress of the larger movement. Exploring antislavery's vast archive and explicating its messages, she emphasizes both the discursive and material aspects of antislavery's appeal, providing a richly textured history of the movement through its artifacts and the modes of circulation it put into place. Featuring more than seventy-five illustrations, Selling Antislavery offers a thorough case study of the role of reform movements in the rise of mass media and argues for abolition's central importance to the shaping of antebellum middle-class culture.
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Subject index
Author: The Old Farmer's Almanac
Author: Old Farmer's AlmanacPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 1571985441
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
"Fitted for Boston and the New England states, with special corrections and calculations to answer for all the United States."