Author: John Adams DixPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Speeches in the Senate, 1846-1849
Author: John Adams DixPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Heartless Immensity
Author: Anne BakerPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472025767
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
As the size of the United States more than doubled during the first half of the nineteenth century, a powerful current of anxiety ran alongside the well-documented optimism about national expansion. Heartless Immensity tells the story of how Americans made sense of their country’s constantly fluctuating borders and its annexation of vast new territories. Anne Baker looks at a variety of sources, including letters, speeches, newspaper editorials, schoolbooks, as well as visual and literary works of art. These cultural artifacts suggest that the country’s anxiety was fueled primarily by two concerns: fears about the size of the nation as a threat to democracy, and about the incorporation of nonwhite, non-Protestant regions. These fears had a consistent and influential presence until after the Civil War, functioning as vital catalysts for the explosion of literary creativity known as the “American Renaissance,” including the work of Melville, Thoreau, and Fuller, among others. Building on extensive archival research as well as insights from cultural geographers and theorists of nationhood, Heartless Immensity demonstrates that national expansion had a far more complicated, multifaceted impact on antebellum American culture than has previously been recognized. Baker shows that Americans developed a variety of linguistic strategies for imagining the form of the United States and its position in relation to other geopolitical entities. Comparisons to European empires, biblical allusions, body politic metaphors, and metaphors derived from science all reflected—and often attempted to assuage—fears that the nation was becoming either monstrously large or else misshapen in ways that threatened cherished beliefs and national self-images. Heartless Immensity argues that, in order to understand the nation’s shift from republic to empire and to understand American culture in a global context, it is first necessary to pay close attention to the processes by which the physical entity known as the United States came into being. This impressively thorough study will make a valuable contribution to the fields of American studies and literary studies. Anne Baker is Assistant Professor of English at North Carolina State University.
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
On the Mode of Constituting Presidential Electors ...
Author: John Adams DixPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Memoirs of John Adams Dix
Author: Morgan DixA Dictionary of Books relating to America, From its Discovery to the Present Time.
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752519924
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
The Mexican-American War of 1846-1848
Author: University of Texas at Arlington. LibrariesPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
This bibliography of the Mexican War holdings of the libraries at the University of Texas at Arlington is the product of more than forty years' collecting and research. As a result of his recognition that Texana collections would be incomplete without items from the period up to the ratification of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo by Mexico in May, 1848, Jenkins Garrett began this bibliography in earnest in the 1950s, at a time when Mexican War items were not even listed as a separate category by collectors. Arranged by chapters according to topics or type of holding, the bibliography is designed to give extensive and accurate descriptive information of approximately 2,500 items of interest to scholars and collectors. Each entry thus includes full title page wording, edition information, collation, other library locations, and notes, though the bibliography is not annotated per se. Extensive appendixes present alternate methods of referencing documents and compilations of data that may prove helpful in studying the Mexican War.
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Speeches, Correspondence, Etc., of the Late Daniel S. Dickinson of New York
Author: Daniel Stevens DickinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description