Author: Richardson Little WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Peddlers
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Strolling peddlers, preachers, lawyers, doctors, players and others from the beginning to the Civil War.
Hawkers & Walkers in Early America
Author: Richardson Little WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Peddlers
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Strolling peddlers, preachers, lawyers, doctors, players and others from the beginning to the Civil War.
Hawkers and Walkers in Early America
Author: Richardson Little WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Peddlers
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Hawkers and Walkers in Early America, Strolling Peddlers, Preachers, Lawyers, Doctors, Players and Others, from the Beginning to the Civil War, by Richardson Wright,...
Author: Richardson Little WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Hawkers & Walkers in Early America. Strolling Peddlers, Preachers, Lawyers, Doctors, Players, and Others, from the Beginning to the Civil War ... With 68 Illustrations, Etc
Author: Richardson Little WRIGHTPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Hawkers and Walkers in Early America; Strolling Peddlers, Preachers, Lawyers, Doctors, Players, and Others, from the Beg
Author: Richardson Little WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : UNITED STATES--SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS.
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Hawkers and Walkers in Early America
Author: Richardson Little WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 2398
Book Description
Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 24 : Nos. 1-148 (March, 1927 - March, 1928)
Quarterly Bulletin
Author: Brockton Public Library (Brockton, Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
"It was Play Or Starve"
Author: John HannersPublisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879725877
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Unearths the personalities and experiences of touring and itinerant popular entertainers in 19th-century America. Drawing on both primary and secondary sources, describes life and work on the showboats, among the small towns, and in the big cities; and the financial difficulties, the physical dangers, the social prejudices, and cultural barriers. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $15.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Inventing the "Great Awakening"
Author: Frank LambertPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691223998
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This book is a history of an astounding transatlantic phenomenon, a popular evangelical revival known in America as the first Great Awakening (1735-1745). Beginning in the mid-1730s, supporters and opponents of the revival commented on the extraordinary nature of what one observer called the "great ado," with its extemporaneous outdoor preaching, newspaper publicity, and rallies of up to 20,000 participants. Frank Lambert, biographer of Great Awakening leader George Whitefield, offers an overview of this important episode and proposes a new explanation of its origins. The Great Awakening, however dramatic, was nevertheless unnamed until after its occurrence, and its leaders created no doctrine nor organizational structure that would result in a historical record. That lack of documentation has allowed recent scholars to suggest that the movement was "invented" by nineteenth-century historians. Some specialists even think that it was wholly constructed by succeeding generations, who retroactively linked sporadic happenings to fabricate an alleged historic development. Challenging these interpretations, Lambert nevertheless demonstrates that the Great Awakening was invented--not by historians but by eighteenth-century evangelicals who were skillful and enthusiastic religious promoters. Reporting a dramatic meeting in one location in order to encourage gatherings in other places, these men used commercial strategies and newly popular print media to build a revival--one that they also believed to be an "extraordinary work of God." They saw a special meaning in contemporary events, looking for a transatlantic pattern of revival and finding a motive for spiritual rebirth in what they viewed as a moral decline in colonial America and abroad. By examining the texts that these preachers skillfully put together, Lambert shows how they told and retold their revival account to themselves, their followers, and their opponents. His inquiries depict revivals as cultural productions and yield fresh understandings of how believers "spread the word" with whatever technical and social methods seem the most effective.