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The Routledge History of Nineteenth-Century America provides an
important overview of the main themes within the study of the long
nineteenth century. The book explores major currents of research
over the past few decades to give an up-to-date synthesis of
nineteenth-century history. It shows how the century defined much
of our modern world, focusing on themes including: immigration,
slavery and racism, women's rights, literature and culture, and
urbanization. This collection reflects the state of the field and
will be essential reading for all those interested in the
development of the modern United States.
The Routledge History of Nineteenth-Century America provides an
important overview of the main themes within the study of the long
nineteenth century. The book explores major currents of research
over the past few decades to give an up-to-date synthesis of
nineteenth-century history. It shows how the century defined much
of our modern world, focusing on themes including: immigration,
slavery and racism, women's rights, literature and culture, and
urbanization. This collection reflects the state of the field and
will be essential reading for all those interested in the
development of the modern United States.
From the founding of Jamestown to the American Civil War, slavery
and abolition shaped American national, regional and racial
identities. This four-volume reset edition draws together rare
sources relating to American slavery systems.
From the founding of Jamestown to the American Civil War, slavery
and abolition shaped American national, regional and racial
identities. This four-volume reset edition draws together rare
sources relating to American slavery systems.
From the founding of Jamestown to the American Civil War, slavery
and abolition shaped American national, regional and racial
identities. This four-volume reset edition draws together rare
sources relating to American slavery systems.
From the founding of Jamestown to the American Civil War, slavery
and abolition shaped American national, regional and racial
identities. This four-volume reset edition draws together rare
sources relating to American slavery systems.
With a fresh take on social dynamics in the antebellum South,
Jonathan Daniel Wells contests the popular idea that the Old South
was a region of essentially two classes (planters and slaves) until
after the Civil War. He argues that, in fact, the region had a
burgeoning white middle class - including merchants, doctors, and
teachers - that had a profound impact on southern culture, the
debate over slavery, and the coming of the Civil War. Wells shows
that the growth of the periodical press after 1820 helped build a
cultural bridge between the North and the South, and the emerging
southern middle class seized upon northern middle-class ideas about
gender roles and reform, politics, and the virtues of
modernization. Even as it sought to emulate northern progress,
however, the southern middle class never abandoned its attachment
to slavery. By the 1850s, Wells argues, the prospect of industrial
slavery in the South threatened northern capital and labor, causing
sectional relations to shift from cooperative to competitive.
Rather than simply pitting a backward, slave-labor, agrarian South
against a progressive, free-labor, industrial North, Wells argues
that the Civil War reflected a more complex interplay of economic
and cultural values.
"The Laplander Goose" is a fable--the story of an old woman, the
goose she loves so dearly, a type of magic that promises to make
life very easy, and an unfortunate turn of events that has made
things very, very difficult. Set in the far northern parts of
Scandinavia, "The Laplander Goose" is a tender and heartfelt story
of the sometimes-unexpected paths taken by love, and at the same
time it can be taken as a parable on the careful use of
environment, technology and other types of magic. This story will
appeal to young and mature readers alike.
"The Laplander Goose" is a fable--the story of an old woman, the
goose she loves so dearly, a type of magic that promises to make
life very easy, and an unfortunate turn of events that has made
things very, very difficult. Set in the far northern parts of
Scandinavia, "The Laplander Goose" is a tender and heartfelt story
of the sometimes-unexpected paths taken by love, and at the same
time it can be taken as a parable on the careful use of
environment, technology and other types of magic. This story will
appeal to young and mature readers alike.
With a fresh interpretation of African American resistance to
kidnapping and pre-Civil War political culture, Blind No More sheds
new light on the coming of the Civil War by focusing on a neglected
truism: the antebellum free states experienced a dramatic
ideological shift that questioned the value of the Union. Jonathan
Daniel Wells explores the cause of disunion as the persistent
determination on the part of enslaved people that they would flee
bondage no matter the risks. By protesting against kidnappings and
fugitive slave renditions, they brought slavery to the doorstep of
the free states, forcing those states to recognize the meaning of
freedom and the meaning of states' rights in the face of a federal
government equally determined to keep standing its divided house.
Through these actions, African Americans helped northerners and
westerners question whether the constitutional compact was still
worth upholding, a reevaluation of the republican experiment that
would ultimately lead not just to Civil War but to the Thirteenth
Amendment, ending slavery. Wells contends that the real story of
American freedom lay not with the Confederate rebels nor even with
the Union army but instead rests with the tens of thousands of
self-emancipated men and women who demonstrated to the Founders,
and to succeeding generations of Americans, the value of liberty.
Jonathan Daniel Wells and Jennifer R. Green provide a series of
provocative essays reflecting innovative, original research on
professional and commercial interests in the nineteenth-century
South, a place often seen as being composed of just two classes --
planters and slaves. Rather, an active middle class, made up of men
and women devoted to the cultural and economic modernization of
Dixie, worked with each other -- and occasionally their northern
counterparts -- to bring reforms to the region.
With a balance of established and younger authors, of antebellum
and postbellum analyses, and of narrative and quantitative
methodologies, these essays offer new ways to think about politics,
society, gender, and culture during this exciting era of southern
history. The contributors show that many like-minded southerners
sought to create a "New South" with a society similar to that of
the North. They supported the creation of public schools and an end
to dueling, but less progressive reform was also endorsed, such as
building factories using slave labor rather than white wage
earners. The Southern Middle Class in the Long Nineteenth Century
significantly influences thought on the social structure of the
South, the centrality of class in history, and the events prior to
and after the Civil War.
The first study to focus on white and black women journalists and
writers both before and after the Civil War, this book offers fresh
insight into southern intellectual life, the fight for women's
rights, and gender ideology. Based on fresh research into southern
magazines and newspapers, this book seeks to shift scholarly
attention away from novelists and toward the rich and diverse
periodical culture of the South between 1820 and 1900. Magazines
were of central importance to the literary culture of the South
because the region lacked the publishing centers that could produce
large numbers of books. Easily portable, newspapers and magazines
could be sent through the increasingly sophisticated postal system
for relatively low subscription rates. The mix of content, from
poetry to short fiction and literary reviews to practical advice
and political news, meant that periodicals held broad appeal. As
editors, contributors, correspondents, and reporters in the
nineteenth century, southern women entered traditionally male
bastions when they embarked on careers in journalism. In so doing,
they opened the door to calls for greater political and social
equality at the turn of the twentieth century.
The first study to focus on white and black women journalists and
writers both before and after the Civil War, this book offers fresh
insight into southern intellectual life, the fight for women's
rights, and gender ideology. Based on fresh research into southern
magazines and newspapers, this book seeks to shift scholarly
attention away from novelists and toward the rich and diverse
periodical culture of the South between 1820 and 1900. Magazines
were of central importance to the literary culture of the South
because the region lacked the publishing centers that could produce
large numbers of books. Easily portable, newspapers and magazines
could be sent through the increasingly sophisticated postal system
for relatively low subscription rates. The mix of content, from
poetry to short fiction and literary reviews to practical advice
and political news, meant that periodicals held broad appeal. As
editors, contributors, correspondents, and reporters in the
nineteenth century, southern women entered traditionally male
bastions when they embarked on careers in journalism. In so doing,
they opened the door to calls for greater political and social
equality at the turn of the twentieth century.
Having worked closely with Harry S. Truman in the triumphant
campaign of 1948, Jonathan Daniels believed that President Truman
was an "everyday" American, an ordinary human who aspired to
greatness and achieved it. Thus, it was Daniels's intention that
The Man of Independence not be a conventional biography; rather, he
wanted it to reveal in real terms "the Odyssey of the 'everyday'
American through our times". As a result, this comprehensive work
not only presents Truman's life, it also details the development of
the America in which the president grew up.
Truman spent his youth and his political life believing that
old-fashioned, determined conservatism was vital to the
preservation of personal liberty. Daniels re-creates Truman's
remarkable journey through life -- employing newspapers, letters,
memos, family papers, as well as interviews with Truman, his
family, and his close acquaintances. In the process, Daniels
provides powerful evocations of the time during which Truman
lived.
Daniels tells this extraordinary story by following this simple
farm boy from Missouri through his youth and his years as a farmer,
a veteran, and a businessman, on to his early career in politics,
and then his presidency. Along the way, Daniels deals with issues,
events, and ideas that were part of Missouri and American politics
in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s; ultimately, he gives us the Truman
who was to become the legend.
This inside account provides thought-provoking and personal
information about Truman. His relationship with Thomas Pendergast,
the seeming conflict between Truman's midwestern conservatism and
his belief in equality for American blacks, and his momentous
decision to use the atomicbomb to end the war -- these are just a
few of the topics touched on. Ending in 1949 when Truman was for
the second time sworn in as president, The Man of Independence
provides a fascinating and valuable look at one of America's most
important and beloved presidents, as well as a crucial look at the
America from which he emerged.
The Southern Literary Messenger enjoyed an impressive thirty-year
run (1834-1864) and was in its time the South's most important
literary periodical. Published in Richmond, Virginia, the monthly
magazine was edited in its early years by Edgar Allan Poe. In
addition to serving as a literary proving ground for Poe, it is
also remembered for publishing poems, fiction, and essays by the
nation's leading authors-both male and female, northern and
southern-including William Gilmore Simms, Paul Hamilton Hayne,
Joseph G. Baldwin, John Pendleton Kennedy, Mary E. Lee, and
Caroline Lee Hentz. In 1905 Benjamin Blake Minor (1818-1905),
editor of the Southern Literary Messenger during the 1840s, wrote
the only book-length study of the magazine. Minor's authoritative
account of the journal's history and influence is augmented in this
edition with a new introduction by historian Jonathan Daniel Wells
that places the magazine and Minor's account in their historical
context. Both Wells and Minor reveal significant information found
nowhere else about figures and facets of southern literary culture
before and during the Civil War. Minor recounts in detail the
relationships he forged with notable authors and includes excerpts
from correspondence with Poe and others. Most important, Minor
identifies and discusses hundreds of lesser contributors who might
otherwise remain anonymous.
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