Author: David Low DodgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Memorial of Mr. David L. Dodge
Author: David Low DodgeThe Culture of the Market
Author: Thomas L. HaskellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521564786
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
A collection of thirteen essays examining how 'the market' has been perceived, represented and experienced differently in different epochs.
Inheriting the Revolution
Author: Joyce ApplebyPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067425208X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Born after the Revolution, the first generation of Americans inherited a truly new world--and, with it, the task of working out the terms of Independence. Anyone who started a business, marketed a new invention, ran for office, formed an association, or wrote for publication was helping to fashion the world's first liberal society. These are the people we encounter in Inheriting the Revolution, a vibrant tapestry of the lives, callings, decisions, desires, and reflections of those Americans who turned the new abstractions of democracy, the nation, and free enterprise into contested realities. Through data gathered on thousands of people, as well as hundreds of memoirs and autobiographies, Joyce Appleby tells myriad intersecting stories of how Americans born between 1776 and 1830 reinvented themselves and their society in politics, economics, reform, religion, and culture. They also had to grapple with the new distinction of free and slave labor, with all its divisive social entailments; the rout of Enlightenment rationality by the warm passions of religious awakening; the explosion of small business opportunities for young people eager to break out of their parents' colonial cocoon. Few in the nation escaped the transforming intrusiveness of these changes. Working these experiences into a vivid picture of American cultural renovation, Appleby crafts an extraordinary--and deeply affecting--account of how the first generation established its own culture, its own nation, its own identity. The passage of social responsibility from one generation to another is always a fascinating interplay of the inherited and the novel; this book shows how, in the early nineteenth century, the very idea of generations resonated with new meaning in the United States.
The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families
Author: The Advocates of Peace in Antebellum America
Author: Valarie H. ZieglerPublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865547261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book chronicles the political and intellectual development of the two major antebellum peace movements. The American Peace Society, a moderate peace group, aimed to work through the institutions of church and state to achieve peace. The New England Nonresistant Society constituted a radical group which advocated the individual's complete separation from all institutions and strict adherence to the example of Christ's life and teachings.
The Peace Reform in American History
Author: Charles DeBenedettiPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
As the United States tries to grapple with the Soviet downing of the Korean 747, multiple conflicts in Central America and the Middle East, war in Afghanistan, and potential problems in Africa and elsewhere, Charles DeBenedetti's concise and comprehensive survey of the peace movement or movements in American history is more timely than ever. "DeBenedetti... has produced the new synthesis which peace scholarship has so long needed." -- Reviews in American History "[The Peace Reform in American History]conveys forcefully the heterogeneity of the groups... that have made up the drive for peace; it sets developments in their domestic and international context; it relates peace reform to other movements; it is written with verve and clarity." -- Journal of American Studies
International Law and Religion
Author: Martti KoskenniemiPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019880587X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
This collective volume brings together contributions by academics in various fields of law and the humanities, in order to tackle the complex interactions between international law and religion. The originality and the variety of approaches makes this book a must-have for academics planning to approach the topic in the future.
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
American National Biography
Author: John A. GarratyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199771499
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
American National Biography is the first new comprehensive biographical dicionary focused on American history to be published in seventy years. Produced under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies, the ANB contains over 17,500 profiles on historical figures written by an expert in the field and completed with a bibliography. The scope of the work is enormous--from the earlest recorded European explorations to the very recent past.
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description