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The new nation
\"With ... illustrations, paintings, maps, political documents, and other media largely drawn from the post-revolutionary era itself, this book details both the new nation's growing pains and shortcomings, its major accomplishments and optimism, its sociocultural trends, and its rapid growth and expansion\"--Amazon.com.
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Roads to Rome
The mixture of hostility and fascination with which native-born Protestants viewed the \"foreign\" practices of the \"immigrant\" church is the focus of Jenny Franchot's cultural, literary, and religious history of Protestant attitudes toward Roman Catholicism in nineteenth-century America. Franchot analyzes the effects of religious attitudes on historical ideas about America's origins and destiny. She then focuses on the popular tales of convent incarceration, with their Protestant \"maidens\" and lecherous, tyrannical Church superiors. Religious captivity narratives, like those of Indian captivity, were part of the ethnically, theologically, and sexually charged discourse of Protestant nativism. Discussions of Stowe, Longfellow, Hawthorne, and Lowell-writers who sympathized with \"Romanism\" and used its imaginative properties in their fiction-further demonstrate the profound influence of religious forces on American national character. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.
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Chained to History
In Chained to History
, Steven J. Brady places slavery at the center of the story
of America's place in the world in the years prior to the
calamitous Civil War. Beginning with the immediate
aftermath of the War of the American Revolution, Brady follows the
military, economic, and moral lines of the diplomatic challenges of
attempting to manage, on the global stage, the actuality of human
servitude in a country dedicated to human freedom. Chained to
History shows how slavery was interwoven with America's
foreign relations and affected policy controversies ranging from
trade to extradition treaties to military alliances.
Brady highlights the limitations placed on American policymakers
who, working in an international context increasingly supportive of
abolition, were severely constrained regarding the formulation and
execution of preferred policy. Policymakers were bound to the slave
interest based in the Democratic Party and the tortured state of
domestic politics bore heavily on the conduct of foreign affairs.
As international powers not only abolished the slave trade but
banned human servitude as such, the American position became
untenable.
From the Age of Revolutions through the American Civil War,
slavery was a constant factor in shaping US relations with the
Atlantic World and beyond. Chained to History addresses
this critical topic in its complete scope and shows the immoral
practice of human bondage to have informed how the United States
re-entered the community of nations after 1865.
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Aristocracy in America : from the sketch-book of a German nobleman
\"Francis J. Grund, a German emigrant, was one of the most influential journalists in America in the three decades preceding the Civil War. He also wrote several books, including Aristocracy in America (1839), a fictional, satiric travel memoir written in response to Alexis de Tocqueville's famous Democracy in America. However, Grund's political work and life have never been analyzed in depth. In his introduction to this long out-of-print work, Armin Mattes provides a thorough account of Grund's dynamic engagement in American political life, and brings to light many of Grund's reflections on American social and political life previously published only in German. Comparing Aristocracy in America with Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Mattes shows how Grund's work can expand our understanding of the emerging democratic political culture and society in the antebellum United States\"--Provided by publisher.
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Chained to History
In Chained to History
, Steven J. Brady places slavery at the center of the story
of America's place in the world in the years prior to the
calamitous Civil War. Beginning with the immediate
aftermath of the War of the American Revolution, Brady follows the
military, economic, and moral lines of the diplomatic challenges of
attempting to manage, on the global stage, the actuality of human
servitude in a country dedicated to human freedom. Chained to
History shows how slavery was interwoven with America's
foreign relations and affected policy controversies ranging from
trade to extradition treaties to military alliances.
Brady highlights the limitations placed on American policymakers
who, working in an international context increasingly supportive of
abolition, were severely constrained regarding the formulation and
execution of preferred policy. Policymakers were bound to the slave
interest based in the Democratic Party and the tortured state of
domestic politics bore heavily on the conduct of foreign affairs.
As international powers not only abolished the slave trade but
banned human servitude as such, the American position became
untenable.
From the Age of Revolutions through the American Civil War,
slavery was a constant factor in shaping US relations with the
Atlantic World and beyond. Chained to History addresses
this critical topic in its complete scope and shows the immoral
practice of human bondage to have informed how the United States
re-entered the community of nations after 1865.
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This Violent Empire
This Violent Empiretraces the origins of American violence, racism, and paranoia to the founding moments of the new nation and the initial instability of Americans' national sense of self.Fusing cultural and political analyses to create a new form of political history, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg explores the ways the founding generation, lacking a common history, governmental infrastructures, and shared culture, solidified their national sense of self by imagining a series of \"Others\" (African Americans, Native Americans, women, the propertyless) whose differences from European American male founders overshadowed the differences that divided those founders. These \"Others,\" dangerous and polluting, had to be excluded from the European American body politic. Feared, but also desired, they refused to be marginalized, incurring increasingly enraged enactments of their political and social exclusion that shaped our long history of racism, xenophobia, and sexism. Close readings of political rhetoric during the Constitutional debates reveal the genesis of this long history.
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They Will Have Their Game
InThey Will Have Their Game, Kenneth Cohen explores how sports, drinking, gambling, and theater produced a sense of democracy while also reinforcing racial, gender, and class divisions in early America. Pairing previously unexplored financial records with a wide range of published reports, unpublished correspondence, and material and visual evidence, Cohen demonstrates how investors, participants, and professional managers and performers from all sorts of backgrounds saw these \"sporting\" activities as stages for securing economic and political advantage over others.
They Will Have Their Gametracks the evolution of this fight for power from 1760 to 1860, showing how its roots in masculine competition and risk-taking gradually developed gendered and racial limits and then spread from leisure activities to the consideration of elections as \"races\" and business as a \"game.\" Compelling narratives about individual participants illustrate the processes by which challenge and conflict across class, race, and gender lines produced a sporting culture that continued to grant unique freedoms to a wide range of society even as it also provided a basis for the normalization of systematic inequality. The result reorients the standard narrative about the rise of commercial popular culture to question the influence of ideas such as \"gentility\" and \"respectability,\" and to put men like P. T. Barnum at the end instead of the beginning of the process, unveiling a new take on the creation of the white male republic of the early nineteenth century in which sporting activities lie at the center and not the margins of economic and political history.
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