Author: United States. War DepartmentPublisher:
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Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
Book Description
Correspondence and Journals of Samuel Blachley Webb
Author: Samuel Blachley WebbPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The War of the Rebellion
Author: United States. War DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
Book Description
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 15, 1867
Author: Charles DarwinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052185931X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 757
Book Description
During 1867 Darwin intensified lines of research on human expression and sexual selection.
Correspondence
Author: Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von LeibnizPublisher: Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780872205253
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
For this new edition, Roger Ariew has adapted Samuel Clarke's edition of 1717, modernizing it to reflect contemporary English usage. Ariew's introduction places the correspondence in historical context and discusses the vibrant philosophical climate of the times. Appendices provide those selections from the works of Newton that Clarke frequently refers to in the correspondence. A bibliography is also included.
House documents
Author: Guide to Selected Manuscripts Housed in the Division of Special Collections and Archives, Margaret I. King Library, University of Kentucky
Author: University of Kentucky. LibrariesPublisher:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The Life and Correspondence of William and Alice Ellis, of Airton
Author: James BACKHOUSE (of York, the Elder.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The hand-book of letter-writing
Author: HandbookA Guide to the Microfilm Edition of Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution Through the Civil War
Author: Kenneth Milton StamppPublisher:
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Social Anxieties of Progressive Reform
Author: Martin PaulssonPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814766439
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Tracing the evolution of Atlantic City from a miserable hamlet of fishermen's huts in 1854 to the nation's premier seaside resort in 1910, The Social Anxieties of Progressive Reform chronicles a bizarre political conflict that reaches to the very heart of Progressivism. Operating outside of the traditional constraints of family, church, and community, commercial recreation touched the rawest nerves of the reform impulse. The sight of young men and women frolicking in the surf and tangoing on the beach and the presence of unescorted women in boardwalk cafs and cabarets translated for many Progressives, secular and evangelical alike, into a wholesale rejection of socio-sexual restraints and portended disaster for the American family. While some viewed Atlantic City as a modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah, others considered the resort the triumph of American democracy and a healthy and innocent release from the drudgery and regimentation of industrial society. These conflicting currents resulted in a policy of strategic censorship that evolved in stages during the formative years of the city. Sunday drinking, gambling, and prostitution were permitted, albeit under increasingly stringent controls, but resort amusements were significantly restricted and shut down entirely on Sunday. This policy also segregated blacks from the beach and the boardwalk. By 1890, more than one in five residents of Atlantic City was black, a uniquely high ratio among northern cities. While the urban economies of the north depended on immigrant labor, the resort economy of Atlantic City rested on legions of black cooks, waiters, bellmen, and domestic workers. Paulsson's description of African-American life in Atlantic City provides a vivid and comprehensive picture of life in the North during the decades following the Civil War. Paulsson's work, and his focus on changing social values and growing racial tensions, brings to light an ongoing crisis in American society, namely the chasm between religion and mass culture as embodied by the indifference to the sanctity of the Sabbath. In Atlantic City, churches mounted a nationwide effort to preserve the Christian Sunday, a movement that grew steadily after the Civil War. Paullson's account of modern Sabbatarianism provides fresh insights into the nature of evangelical reform and its relationship to the Progressive movement. Filled with over forty delightful historical photographs that vividly depict the evolution of the resort's architecture, political scene, and even swimwear, The Social Anxieties of Progressive Reform is must reading for anyone interested in American mass culture, Progressivism, and reform movements. Paulsson has illustrated the story with over forty delightful historical photographs that vividly depict the evolution of the resort's architecture, political scene, and even swimwear.