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Recent work on the history of migration and the Atlantic World
has underscored the importance of the political economies of
Europe, Africa, and the Americas in the eighteenth century,
emphasizing the impact of these exchanges on political relations
and state-building, and on economic structures, commerce, and
wealth. Too little of this work explores culture and identity
outside the Anglo-American context, especially as reflected through
religious developments of radical Pietists and other Germans, the
second largest group of migrants to the American colonies in the
eighteenth century.
This volume offers a fresh vantage point from which to examine
the Atlantic World. Quick to traverse the conventional political
boundaries that divided European states and American colonies,
Moravians departed their homeland to form new congregations in the
most cosmopolitan European cities as well as on the North American
frontier. Pious Pursuits explores the lives and beliefs of Atlantic
World Moravians, as well as their communities and culture, and it
provides a new framework for analysis of the Atlantic World that is
comparative and transnational.
Michele Gillespie is Kahle Associate Professor of History at
Wake Forest University. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton
University, and is the author of numerous publications including
"Free Labor in a Free World: White Artisans in Slaveholding
Georgia, 1790-1860."
Robert Beachy is Associate Professor of History at Goucher
College. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago and is
the author of "The Soul of Commerce: Credit, Property, and Politics
in Leipzig, 1750-1840." His current book project is "Berlin: Gay
Metropolis, 1860-1933."
North Carolina has had more than its share of accomplished,
influential women--women who have expanded their sphere of
influence or broken through barriers that had long defined and
circumscribed their lives, women such as Elizabeth Maxwell Steele,
the widow and tavern owner who supported the American Revolution;
Harriet Jacobs, runaway slave, abolitionist, and author of
"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"; and Edith Vanderbilt and
Katharine Smith Reynolds, elite women who promoted women's
equality. This collection of essays examines the lives and times of
pathbreaking North Carolina women from the late eighteenth century
into the early twentieth century, offering important new insights
into the variety of North Carolina women's experiences across time,
place, race, and class, and conveys how women were able to expand
their considerable influence during periods of political challenge
and economic hardship, particularly over the course of the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
These essays highlight North Carolina's progressive streak and its
positive impact on women's education--for white and black alike--
beginning in the antebellum period on through new opportunities
that opened up in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. They explore the ways industrialization drew large
numbers of women into the paid labor force for the first time and
what the implications of this tremendous transition were; they also
examine the women who challenged traditional gender roles, as
political leaders and labor organizers, as runaways, and as widows.
The volume is especially attuned to differences in region within
North Carolina, delineating women's experiences in the eastern
third of the state, the piedmont, and the western mountains.
While this thesis is about the historic British/Irish Problem it is
not just another book on Irish history. Historians have a severe
drawback in that they describe but don't prescribe. They can
describe events and problems but are lax in prescribing remedies
for these. Economists have a similar limitation. They can describe
problems but have difficulty in prescribing remedies. Charlie
Haughey said that if he were to ask ten economists the answer to an
economic difficulty he would get ten different contradictory
answers. To look at the matter in another way suppose all your
doctor could do is describe your ailment but was unable to
prescribe a remedy for it, it would be a waste of time talking to
your doctor. While this thesis describes the nature of the Irish
Problem it does more. It prescribes a remedy for it. In that sense
this thesis is an improvement on books on history or economics. You
are invited to read the book and find out about the nature of the
Irish Problem in British Constitution and consider the prescribed
remedy. You are free to make up your mind about the prescription.
Should the Irish swallow the medicine and be cured or should they
wash the medicine down the sink as too strong and distasteful? The
verdict is yours. One can lead a horse to water but one can't make
the horse drink. Michael Gillespie Author.
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These essays look at southern social customs within a single city
in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, the
volume focuses on paternalism between masters and slaves, husbands
and wives, elites and the masses, and industrialists and workers.
How Augusta's millworkers, homemakers, and others resisted,
exploited, or endured the constraints of paternalism reveals the
complex interplay between race, class, and gender. One essay looks
at the subordinating effects of paternalism on women in the Old
South-slave, free black, and white-and the coping strategies
available to each group. Another focuses on the Knights of Labor
union in Augusta. With their trappings of chivalry, the Knights are
viewed as a response by Augusta's white male millworkers to the
emasculating "maternalism" to which they were subjected by their
own wives and daughters and those of mill owners and managers.
Millworkers are also the topic of a study of mission work in their
communities, a study that gauges the extent to which religious
outreach by elites was a means of social control rather than an
outpouring of genuine concern for worker welfare. Other essays
discuss Augusta's "aristocracy of color," who had to endure the
same effronteries of segregation as the city's poorest blacks; the
role of interracial cooperation in the founding of the Colored
Methodist Episcopal Church as a denomination, and of Augusta's
historic Trinity CME Church; and William Jefferson White, an
African American minister, newspaper editor, and founder of
Morehouse College. The varied and creative responses to paternalism
discussed here open new ways to view relationships based on power
and negotiated between men and women, blacks and whites, and the
prosperous and the poor.
This book ---SIZE MATTERS --is the third part of a trilogy on the
Irish Problem. While the trilogy has a unifying theme there is
developed in each book a different story line. The first book - THE
WAY IRELAND OUGHT TO BE --tells the story of a dissident teacher
who is sectioned in a psychiatric clinic because of his views on
Irish politics. The story examines the conflict in the clinic
between the teacher and a state psychiatrist. The second book --THE
RAPE OF VIRGIN MUNCHINDUN--- examines a tragic love relationship
between two men in a rural parish in Ireland. The third book of the
trilogy -SIZE MATTERS --examines a love relationship between a
free-lance journalist Eoin Bradley and two women, one an ex-I.R.A.
Republican and the other a member of the Orange Order. As a
journalist Eoin publishes what he sees as the nuts and bolts of
resolving the historic sectarian Irish problem. He finds however
that in the two local parishes of Ardum and Ardee (one Catholic the
other Protestant) what really divides the people are irrational
beliefs they hold about each others physical make up. Using his
imagination and ingenuity Eoin breaks down the myth barriers that
keep the two communities apart and unites them in a new found
harmony of love.
This book is set in the heartland of Ireland. Its story line
relates the relationship between two men in a love that dares not
speak its name. While that is the story line the theme of conflict
between good and evil, runs through the book. Les Hamilton is a
young protestant man who came to Munchindun to establish a forest.
He meets up with a young unemployed penniless son of a gamekeeper
called Pete Donovan and the two men fall in love. Les transforms
Pete's life and the life of the parish. The relationship between
the two men is bitterly opposed by a nurse Mary Mc Menamin who was
originally the girl friend of Pete. Her hatred of the two men and
her involvement in the paramilitary politics of hate secraranism
and bigotry drive her to commit the murder of Les. Mary is put on
trial for murder and on the testimony of Pete she is sentenced to
life imprisonment for murder. IN retaliation against Pete f or
giving evidence to a British court the I.R.A. sentence him to death
and have him shot. In the wider field the novel is set against a
background of violence and unrest in Ireland in the 1970ties. The
thrust of the novel has to do not only with a conflict of good and
evil between those who do good and those who do evil in a rural
parish but this conflict is seen to run through Irish history where
the good and the rational are wiped out by those who do evil, are
irrational and are sectarian. Michael Gillespie
The novel---THE WAY IRELAND OUGHT TO BE--- is a fiction of an
impressionistic nature derived from the composite life experiences
outlined. The novel tells the story of a teacher Dr Quinn who is
sectioned in a psychiatric clinic and is told he is schizophrenic.
The novel relates his struggle to discover his true self, his true
identity as an Irish man and in the struggle he creates The
National Government of Ireland Act as the solution to the Irish
problem. He gives the Act to Dr Kane to read but the doctor
dismisses it as unreadable rubbish. He is then given an injection
by force and is turned out of the clinic to live in a dirty dump of
a flat. The novel deals with reality, delusion, the imagination,
identity and the solution to the Irish problem. The author's
concise solution to the Irish problem is at present being published
in the Irish political journal---The Blanket---and can be found on
the Internet. The author is in his sixties and has been married. He
has a family of four and three grandchildren. He is now divorced.
He lives in Derry where he has many friends and enjoys the close
support of his three sisters. His interests are writing, reading,
gardening, interior design, charity work and a daily work out in
the local gym. He intends to write two further novels, one titled
The Rape of the Virgin, which has to do with good and evil in a
rural parish in Ireland and another titled Size Matters, which will
deal with communal bigotry in Ireland. Chidi Lynn typed the novel
on to disk and Tony Doyle, an art student at the N.W. Institute of
Further and Higher Education in Derry, created the design for the
cover. Michael Gillespie B.Ed B.Sc (Econ) Dip.Ed D.A.S.E. M.A. (
Ed)
This is the first book-length study of free, white craftsmen and
tradesmen in the pre-Civil War South. Michele Gillespie details
these workers' worlds and tells how they struggled against
declining social and economic opportunities while skilled slaves
increasingly took up the mechanical, building, clothing, and
decorative arts trades.
Although historians over the past two decades have written
extensively on the plantation mistress and the slave woman, they
have largely neglected the world of the working woman. "Neither
Lady nor Slave" pushes southern history beyond the plantation to
examine the lives and labors of ordinary southern women--white,
free black, and Indian.
Contributors to this volume illuminate women's involvement in
the southern market economy in all its diversity. Thirteen essays
explore the working lives of a wide range of women--nuns and
prostitutes, iron workers and basket weavers, teachers and domestic
servants--in urban and rural settings across the South. By
highlighting contrasts between paid and unpaid, officially
acknowledged and "invisible" work within the context of cultural
attitudes regarding women's proper place in society, the book sheds
new light on the ambiguities that marked relations between race,
class, and gender in the modernizing South.
Contributors
E. Susan Barber, College of Notre Dame of Maryland (Baltimore,
Md.)
Bess Beatty, Oregon State University (Eugene, Ore.)
Emily Bingham (Louisville, Ky.)
James Taylor Carson, Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario,
Canada)
Emily Clark, University of Southern Mississippi (Hattiesburg,
Miss.)
Stephanie Cole, University of Texas at Arlington (Arlington,
Tex.)
Susanna Delfino, University of Genoa (Genoa, Italy)
Michele Gillespie, Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem,
N.C.)
Sarah Hill (Atlanta, Ga.)
Barbara J. Howe, West Virginia University (Morgantown, W.
Va.)
Timothy J. Lockley, University of Warwick (Coventry, England)
Stephanie McCurry, Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)
Diane BattsMorrow, University of Georgia (Athens, Ga.)
Penny L. Richards, UCLA Center for the Study of Women (Los Angeles,
Calif.)
(series copy) These encyclopedic companions are browsable, invaluable individual guides to authors and their works. Useful for students, but written with the general reader in mind, they are clear, concise, accessible, and supply the basic cultural, historical, biographical and critical information so crucial to an appreciation and enjoyment of the primary works. Each is arranged in an A-Z fashion and presents and explains the terms, people, places, and concepts encountered in the literary worlds of James Joyce, Mark Twain, and Virginia Woolf. As a keen explorer of the mundane material of everyday life, James Joyce ranks high in the canon of modernist writers. He is arguably the most influential writer of the twentieth-century, and may be the most read, studied, and taught of all modern writers. The James Joyce A-Z is the ideal companion to Joyce's life and work. Over 800 concise entries relating to all aspects of Joyce are gathered here in one easy-to-use volume of impressive scope.
Separately they were formidable--together they were unstoppable.
Despite their intriguing lives and the deep impact they had on
their community and region, the story of Richard Joshua Reynolds
(1850-1918) and Katharine Smith Reynolds (1880-1924) has never been
fully told. Now Michele Gillespie provides a sweeping account of
how R. J. and Katharine succeeded in realizing their American
dreams.
From relatively modest beginnings, R. J. launched the R. J.
Reynolds Tobacco Company, which would eventually develop two hugely
profitable products, Prince Albert pipe tobacco and Camel
cigarettes. His marriage in 1905 to Katharine Smith, a dynamic
woman thirty years his junior, marked the beginning of a unique
partnership that went well beyond the family. As a couple, the
Reynoldses conducted a far-ranging social life and, under
Katharine's direction, built Reynolda House, a breathtaking estate
and model farm. Providing leadership to a series of progressive
reform movements and business innovations, they helped drive one of
the South's best examples of rapid urbanization and changing race
relations in the city of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Together
they became one of the New South's most influential elite couples.
Upon R. J.'s death, Katharine reinvented herself, marrying a World
War I veteran many years her junior and engaging in a significant
new set of philanthropic pursuits.
"Katharine and R. J. Reynolds" reveals the broad economic, social,
cultural, and political changes that were the backdrop to the
Reynoldses' lives. Portraying a New South shaped by tensions
between rural poverty and industrial transformation, white
working-class inferiority and deeply entrenched racism, and the
solidification of a one-party political system, Gillespie offers a
masterful life-and-times biography of these important North
Carolinians.
By the twentieth century, North Carolina's progressive streak had
strengthened, thanks in part to a growing number of women who
engaged in and influenced state and national policies and politics.
In 1902, Daisy Denson became the first woman to head the state's
welfare board, and from that position she addressed a number of
issues, including child labour and prison reform. Gertrude Weil
fought tirelessly for the Nineteenth Amendment, which extended
suffrage to women, and founded the state chapter of the League of
Women Voters once the amendment was ratified in 1920. Gladys Avery
Tillett, an ardent Democrat and supporter of Roosevelt's New Deal,
became a major presence in her party at both the state and national
levels. Guion Griffis Johnson turned to volunteer work in the
post-war years, becoming one of the state's most prominent female
civic leaders. Through her excellent education, keen legal mind,
and family prominence, Susie Sharp in 1949 became the first woman
judge in North Carolina and in 1974 the first woman in the nation
to be elected and serve as chief justice of a state supreme court.
Throughout her life, the Reverend Dr. Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray
charted a religious, literary, and political path to racial
reconciliation on both a national stage and in North Carolina. This
is the second of two volumes that together explore the diverse and
changing patterns of North Carolina women's lives. These essays
cover the period beginning with women born in the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries but who made their greatest
contributions to the social, political, cultural, legal, and
economic life of the state during the late progressive era through
the late twentieth century.
By the twentieth century, North Carolina's progressive streak had
strengthened, thanks in part to a growing number of women who
engaged in and influenced state and national policies and politics.
In 1902, Daisy Denson became the first woman to head the state's
welfare board, and from that position she addressed a number of
issues, including child labour and prison reform. Gertrude Weil
fought tirelessly for the Nineteenth Amendment, which extended
suffrage to women, and founded the state chapter of the League of
Women Voters once the amendment was ratified in 1920. Gladys Avery
Tillett, an ardent Democrat and supporter of Roosevelt's New Deal,
became a major presence in her party at both the state and national
levels. Guion Griffis Johnson turned to volunteer work in the
post-war years, becoming one of the state's most prominent female
civic leaders. Through her excellent education, keen legal mind,
and family prominence, Susie Sharp in 1949 became the first woman
judge in North Carolina and in 1974 the first woman in the nation
to be elected and serve as chief justice of a state supreme court.
Throughout her life, the Reverend Dr. Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray
charted a religious, literary, and political path to racial
reconciliation on both a national stage and in North Carolina. This
is the second of two volumes that together explore the diverse and
changing patterns of North Carolina women's lives. These essays
cover the period beginning with women born in the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries but who made their greatest
contributions to the social, political, cultural, legal, and
economic life of the state during the late progressive era through
the late twentieth century.
Covering a period from the late colonial age to World War I and
beyond, this collection of essays places the economic history of
the American South in an international light by establishing useful
comparisons with the larger Atlantic and world economy. In an
attempt to dispel long-lasting myths about the South, the essays
analyze the economic evolution of the South from the slave era. The
once-common conception of a backward, wholly agricultural
antebellum South occupied only by wealthy planters, poor whites,
and contented slaves has finally given way to one of economic and
social dynamism as well as regional prosperity. In a coherent and
cohesive progression of subjects, these essays show that the South
was deeply enmeshed in the Atlantic economy since the colonial age
and, after the Civil War, retained distinctive needs that caused
increasing departure from the course northerners were taking on
matters of political economy. This approach also helps explain the
motivations behind the political choices made by the South as an
eminently export-oriented region. This book shows that the South
was not industrially slower to develop than either the majority of
the northern states, especially in the West, or the countries of
Western Europe. In fact, the apparently disappointing performance
of the New South's economy appears to be the result of more
pervasive and largely uncontrollable trends that affected the
national as well as the international economy. Global Perspectives
on Industrial Transformation in the American South makes an
important contribution to the economic history of the South and to
recent efforts to place American history in a more international
context.
This collection of original essays by the nation's leading
political theorists examines the origins of modernity and considers
the question of tolerance as a product of early modern religious
skepticism. Rather than approaching the problem through a purely
historical lens, the authors actively demonstrate the significance
of these issues to contemporary debates in political philosophy and
public policy. The contributors to Early Modern Skepticism raise
and address questions of the utmost significance: Is religious
faith necessary for ethical behavior? Is skepticism a fruitful
ground from which to argue for toleration? This book will be of
interest to historians, philosophers, religious scholars, and
political theorists--anyone concerned about the tensions between
private beliefs and public behavior.
The Devil's Lane highlights important new work on sexuality, race, and gender in the South from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Contributors explore legal history by examining race, crime and punishment, sex across the colour line, and slander. Emerging stars and established scholars such as Peter Wood and Carol Berkin weave together the fascinating story of competing agendas and clashing cultures on the southern frontier.
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