Author: John Townsend CoitPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Sermon Preached on the Day of the Annual Thanksgiving, November 20, 1856
Author: John Townsend CoitPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Thanksgiving
Author: Charles WadsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Thanksgiving Day addresses
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Gospel of Disunion
Author: Mitchell SnayPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469616157
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The centrality of religion in the life of the Old South, the strongly religious nature of the sectional controversy over slavery, and the close affinity between religion and antebellum American nationalism all point toward the need to explore the role of religion in the development of southern sectionalism. In Gospel of Disunion Mitchell Snay examines the various ways in which religion adapted to and influenced the development of a distinctive southern culture and politics before the Civil War, adding depth and form to the movement that culminated in secession. From the abolitionist crisis of 1835 through the formation of the Confederacy in 1861, Snay shows how religion worked as an active agent in translating the sectional conflict into a struggle of the highest moral significance. At the same time, the slavery controversy sectionalized southern religion, creating separate institutions and driving theology further toward orthodoxy. By establishing a biblical sanction for slavery, developing a slaveholding ethic for Christian masters, and demonstrating the viability of separation from the North through the denominational schisms of the 1830s and 1840s, religion reinforced central elements in southern political culture and contributed to a moral consensus that made secession possible.
Gold Seeking
Author: David GoodmanPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804724807
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
"The brave independence of the 'roaring days', the camaraderie of the gold fields, jolly diggers on a spree - these are the images that have come down to us of the gold era of the 1850s in Australia and California. But these images were largely shaped decades later, by writers such as Henry Lawson and Bret Harte - they speak of later nostalgia rather than the experience of the time." "In this study of the contemporary response to the discoveries of gold in Victoria and California, David Goodman argues that people at the time were apprehensive about gold rushing, and the kind of society it seemed to prefigure. In the chaos of the gold rushes, individual self-interest seemed to be all that could motivate people to any exertion. And it was only the economic rationalists of the day - those who believed in political economy and its promise, that out of the confusion of individual self-interest would come some sort of social order - who could wholeheartedly endorse the gold rushes as events." "This is a history of the ways people talked about gold. As the first full-length cultural history of the gold rushes on two continents, it examines the meanings of gold at the time, and the narratives which were told about social disruption. It locates the deeper underlying themes in the response to gold. It also looks at the ways in which the dominant later memories of gold were shaped. And it is about national differences, about the construction of distinctive national cultures out of materials common to the British world. This book should be read not only by Australian and American historians but by anyone with an interest in the cultural history of modernity."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Author: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Journal of the Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Indiana
Author: Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Author: State Historical Society of WisconsinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Proceedings of the Society at Its ... Annual Meeting
Author: State Historical Society of WisconsinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Subject index
Author: Proceedings of the Society at Its 34th- Annual Meeting ...
Author: Wisconsin. State Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description