American Organist
Author : Thomas Scott Buhrman
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 25,9 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Music
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Scott Buhrman
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 25,9 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Music
ISBN :
Author : Pamela Grundy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 29,78 MB
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1351379445
American Sports is a comprehensive, analytical introduction to the history of American sports from the colonial era to the present. Pamela Grundy and Benjamin Rader outline the complex relationships between sports and class, gender, race, religion, and region in the United States. Building on changes in the previous edition, which expanded the attention paid to women, African Americans, Native Americans, and Latinos, this edition adds numerous sidebars that examine subjects such as the Black Sox scandal, the worldwide influence of Jack Johnson, the significance of softball for lesbian athletes, and the influence of the point spread on sports gambling. Insightful, thorough, and highly readable, the new edition of American Sports remains the finest available introduction to the myriad ways in which sports have reinforced or challenged the values and behaviors of Americans, as well as the structure of American society.
Author : Susan-Mary Grant
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 35,14 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN :
This text argues that the Civil War truly formed the American nation and that the antebellum period was the crucial phase of American national construction. Grant focuses on a Northern nationalism based on an opposition to things Southern and links national construction with European nationalism.
Author : Henry Goldschmidt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,90 MB
Release : 2004-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780195149180
A collection of new essays exploring the complex and unstable articulations of race and religion. Drawing on original research, the authors investigate how race and religion have defined global relations, shaped the everyday lives of individuals and communities and how communities use religion to contest the power of racism.
Author : Jon Butler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,48 MB
Release : 2001-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0674006674
Multinational, profit-driven, materialistic, politically self-conscious, power-hungry, religiously plural: America three hundred years ago -- and today. Here are Britain's mainland American colonies after 1680, in the process of becoming the first modern society -- a society the earliest colonists never imagined, a "new order of the ages" that anticipated the American Revolution. Jon Butler's panoramic view of the colonies in this epoch transforms our customary picture of prerevolutionary America; it reveals a strikingly "modern" character that belies the eighteenth-century quaintness fixed in history. Stressing the middle and late decades (the hitherto "dark ages") of the American colonial experience, and emphasizing the importance of the middle and southern colonies as well as New England, Becoming America shows us transformations before 1776 among an unusually diverse assortment of peoples. Here is a polyglot population of English, Indians, Africans, Scots, Germans, Swiss, Swedes, and French; a society of small colonial cities with enormous urban complexities; an economy of prosperous farmers thrust into international market economies; peoples of immense wealth, a burgeoning middle class, and incredible poverty. Butler depicts settlers pursuing sophisticated provincial politics that ultimately sparked revolution and a new nation; developing new patterns in production, consumption, crafts, and trades that remade commerce at home and abroad; and fashioning a society remarkably pluralistic in religion, whose tolerance nonetheless did not extend to Africans or Indians. Here was a society that turned protest into revolution and remade itself many times during the next centuries -- asociety that, for ninety years before 1776, was becoming America.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 966 pages
File Size : 36,6 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Music
ISBN :
Author : Andrei Codrescu
Publisher :
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 13,4 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Clarence L. Mohr
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 14,52 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0807834912
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 15,90 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Church music
ISBN :
Author : Natalie J. Ring
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 10,30 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0820329037
For most historians, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the hostilities of the Civil War and the dashed hopes of Reconstruction give way to the nationalizing forces of cultural reunion, a process that is said to have downplayed sectional grievances and celebrated racial and industrial harmony. In truth, says Natalie J. Ring, this buoyant mythology competed with an equally powerful and far-reaching set of representations of the backward Problem South—one that shaped and reflected attempts by northern philanthropists, southern liberals, and federal experts to rehabilitate and reform the country's benighted region. Ring rewrites the history of sectional reconciliation and demonstrates how this group used the persuasive language of social science and regionalism to reconcile the paradox of poverty and progress by suggesting that the region was moving through an evolutionary period of “readjustment” toward a more perfect state of civilization. In addition, The Problem South contends that the transformation of the region into a mission field and laboratory for social change took place in a transnational moment of reform. Ambitious efforts to improve the economic welfare of the southern farmer, eradicate such diseases as malaria and hookworm, educate the southern populace, “uplift” poor whites, and solve the brewing “race problem” mirrored the colonial problems vexing the architects of empire around the globe. It was no coincidence, Ring argues, that the regulatory state's efforts to solve the “southern problem” and reformers' increasing reliance on social scientific methodology occurred during the height of U.S. imperial expansion.