Author: George Jelinek
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Category : Ellsworth (Kan.)
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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90 Years of Ellsworth and Ellsworth County History
Author: George Jelinek
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Category : Ellsworth (Kan.)
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Category : Ellsworth (Kan.)
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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A Biographical History of Central Kansas...
A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans
Lyons History
Author: Lyons Elementary School Third Graders
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Category : Lyons (Colo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 99
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Category : Lyons (Colo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 99
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Workman Family History
Author: Thelma Chidester Anderson
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Languages : en
Pages : 872
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This is a record of the Workmans from 1534 in England.
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Languages : en
Pages : 872
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This is a record of the Workmans from 1534 in England.
History of the Town of Lyons
Author: Hazel A. Loomis
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Category : Lyons (Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Category : Lyons (Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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History of the State of Kansas
Author: Alfred Theodore Andreas
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Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Kansas
Author: Frank Wilson Blackmar
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Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 950
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Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 950
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American Misfits and the Making of Middle-Class Respectability
Author: Robert Wuthnow
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691210713
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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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.
Publisher: 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.
Educational History of Illinois
Author: John William Cook
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 768
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 768
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