Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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New York History
Author: Alexander Clarence FlickPublisher:
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association with the Quarterly Journal
Author: New York State Historical AssociationPublisher:
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins and Schuyler Counties, New York
Author: Henry B. PeircePublisher:
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Category : Chemung County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
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Cyclopedia of Classified Dates with an Exhaustive Index
Author: Charles Eugene LittlePublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1470
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Past and Present of Syracuse and Onondaga County, New York
Author: William Martin BeauchampPublisher:
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Category : Onondaga County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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History of Clinton and Franklin Counties, New York
Author: Duane Hamilton HurdPublisher:
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Category : Clinton County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 934
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Charts and Chronicles of Matthew Grenelle's Descendants
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Category : Family History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Matthew Grenelle (1602-1643) became a Huguenot convert, and emigrated from France (via The Netherlands and England and/or Wales) to Newport, Rhode Island during or before 1638 (he possibly immigrated to Massachusetts as early as 1629). Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, South Dakota, California and elsewhere.
The Great Revival
Author: John B. BolesPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081314857X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Drawing upon the religious writings of southern evangelicals, John Boles asserts that the extraordinary crowds and miraculous transformations that distinguished the South's First Great Awakening were not simply instances of emotional excess but the expression of widespread and complex attitudes toward God. Converted southerners were starkly individualistic, interested more in gaining personal salvation in a hopelessly evil world than in improving society. As Boles shows in this landmark study, the effect of the Revival was to throw over the region a conservative cast that remains dominant in contemporary southern thought and life.
American Misfits and the Making of Middle-Class Respectability
Author: Robert WuthnowPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691210713
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
How American respectability has been built by maligning those who don't make the grade How did Americans come to think of themselves as respectable members of the middle class? Was it just by earning a decent living? Or did it require something more? And if it did, what can we learn that may still apply? The quest for middle-class respectability in nineteenth-century America is usually described as a process of inculcating positive values such as honesty, hard work, independence, and cultural refinement. But clergy, educators, and community leaders also defined respectability negatively, by maligning individuals and groups—“misfits”—who deviated from accepted norms. Robert Wuthnow argues that respectability is constructed by “othering” people who do not fit into easily recognizable, socially approved categories. He demonstrates this through an in-depth examination of a wide variety of individuals and groups that became objects of derision. We meet a disabled Civil War veteran who worked as a huckster on the edges of the frontier, the wife of a lunatic who raised her family while her husband was institutionalized, an immigrant religious community accused of sedition, and a wealthy scion charged with profiteering. Unlike respected Americans who marched confidently toward worldly and heavenly success, such misfits were usually ignored in paeans about the nation. But they played an important part in the cultural work that made America, and their story is essential for understanding the “othering” that remains so much a part of American culture and politics today.