Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 32,50 MB
Release : 2024-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385577721
Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 30,69 MB
Release : 2024-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 338557773X
Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
Author : Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. Board of Managers
Publisher :
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 32,22 MB
Release : 1838
Category : Antislavery movements
ISBN :
Author : Daniel S. Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 38,9 MB
Release : 2006-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1135524351
The First of Causes to Our Sex is a study of the first movement in the United States for social change by and for women. Female moral reform in the 1830s and '40s was a campaign to abolish sexual vice and the sexual double standard, and to promote sexual abstinence among the young as they entered the marriage market. The movement has earned a place in U.S. women's history, but most research has focused on it as an urban phenomenon, and sought its significance in relation to the cause of women's rights or to the regulation of prostitution. This study explores the appeal of moral reform to rural women, who were the vast majority of its constituency, and sees it as a response to seminal changes in family formation and family size in the context of an increasingly market-oriented and mobile society. It was led by Yankee women who were fired by Second Great Awakening revivals and supported by reformist clergy.
Author : William F. Hartford
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 49,66 MB
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1643363956
Examines the evolving lives of two men who were crucial political figures in the consequential decades prior to the Civil War Although neither of them lived to see the Civil War, John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun did as much any two political figures of the era to shape the intersectional tensions that produced the conflict. William F. Hartford examines the lives of Adams and Calhoun as a prism through which to view the developing sectional conflict. While both men came of age as strong nationalists, their views, like those of the nation, diverged by the 1830s, largely over the issue of slavery. Hartford examines the two men's responses to issues of nationalism and empire, sectionalism and nullification, slavery and antislavery, party and politics, and also the expansion of slavery. He offers fresh insights into the sectional conflict that also accounts for the role of personal idiosyncrasy and interpersonal relationships in the coming of the Civil War.
Author : Gerda Lerner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 16,14 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Antislavery movements
ISBN : 0195106032
"In The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina, Gerda Lerner, herself a leading historian and pioneer in the study of Women's History, tells the story of these determined sisters and the contributions they made to the antislavery and woman's rights movements.
Author : Robert A. Gross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 14,79 MB
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0374711887
One of The Wall Street Journal's 10 best books of 2021 One of Air Mail's 10 best books of 2021 Winner of the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize In the year of the nation’s bicentennial, Robert A. Gross published The Minutemen and Their World, a paradigm-shaping study of Concord, Massachusetts, during the American Revolution. It won the prestigious Bancroft Prize and became a perennial bestseller. Forty years later, in this highly anticipated work, Gross returns to Concord and explores the meaning of an equally crucial moment in the American story: the rise of Transcendentalism. The Transcendentalists and Their World offers a fresh view of the thinkers whose outsize impact on philosophy and literature would spread from tiny Concord to all corners of the earth. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Alcotts called this New England town home, and Thoreau drew on its life extensively in his classic Walden. But Concord from the 1820s through the 1840s was no pastoral place fit for poets and philosophers. The Transcendentalists and their neighbors lived through a transformative epoch of American life. A place of two thousand–plus souls in the antebellum era, Concord was a community in ferment, whose small, ordered society founded by Puritans and defended by Minutemen was dramatically unsettled through the expansive forces of capitalism and democracy and tightly integrated into the wider world. These changes challenged a world of inherited institutions and involuntary associations with a new premium on autonomy and choice. They exposed people to cosmopolitan currents of thought and endowed them with unparalleled opportunities. They fostered uncertainties, raised new hopes, stirred dreams of perfection, and created an audience for new ideas of individual freedom and democratic equality deeply resonant today. The Transcendentalists and Their World is both an intimate journey into the life of a community and a searching cultural study of major American writers as they plumbed the depths of the universe for spiritual truths and surveyed the rapidly changing contours of their own neighborhoods. It shows us familiar figures in American literature alongside their neighbors at every level of the social order, and it reveals how this common life in Concord entered powerfully into their works. No American community of the nineteenth century has been recovered so richly and with so acute an awareness of its place in the larger American story.
Author : Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 28,79 MB
Release : 1838
Category : Slavery
ISBN :
Author : Rachel Hope Cleves
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 10,87 MB
Release : 2009-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0521884357
In this book, Cleves argues that American fears of the violence of the French Revolution led to antislavery, antiwar, and public education movements.
Author : Lyndsay Campbell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 13,46 MB
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1316510697
A fascinating comparative history of the legal arguments and strategies used to regulate expression in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia.