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Thinking together : lecturing, learning, and difference in the long nineteenth century
\"Explores the myriad ways that people in the nineteenth century grappled with questions of learning, belonging, civic participation, and deliberation. Focuses on the dynamics of gender, race, region, and religion, and how individuals and groups often excluded from established institutions developed knowledge useful for public life\"--Provided by publisher.
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Thinking together : lecturing, learning, and difference in the long nineteenth century
Changes to the landscape of higher education in the United States over the past decades have urged scholars grappling with issues of privilege, inequality, and social immobility to think differently about how we learn and deliberate. Thinking Together is a multidisciplinary conversation about how people approached similar questions of learning and difference in the nineteenth century.
In the open air, in homes, in public halls, and even in prisons, people pondered recurring issues: justice, equality, careers, entertainment, war and peace, life and death, heaven and hell, the role of education, and the nature of humanity itself. Paying special attention to the dynamics of race and gender in intellectual settings, the contributors to this volume consider how myriad groups and individuals—many of whom lived on the margins of society and had limited access to formal education—developed and deployed knowledge useful for public participation and public advocacy around these concerns. Essays examine examples such as the women and men who engaged lecture culture during the Civil War; Irish immigrants who gathered to assess their relationship to the politics and society of the New World; African American women and men who used music and theater to challenge the white gaze; and settler-colonists in Liberia who created forums for envisioning a new existence in Africa and their relationship to a U.S. homeland. Taken together, this interdisciplinary exploration shows how learning functioned not only as an instrument for public action but also as a way to forge meaningful ties with others and to affirm the value of an intellectual life.
By highlighting people, places, and purposes that diversified public discourse, Thinking Together offers scholars across the humanities new insights and perspectives on how difference enhances the human project of thinking together.
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Practicing citizenship : women's rhetoric at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair
\"Explores women's conceptions of citizenship as articulated in their speeches at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Illustrates how, in addition to working for their own enfranchisement, women also modeled practices of democratic citizenship beyond the ballot\"--Provided by publisher.
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Practicing Citizenship
By 1893, the Supreme Court had officially declared women to be citizens, but most did not have the legal right to vote. In Practicing Citizenship, Kristy Maddux provides a glimpse at an unprecedented alternative act of citizenship by women of the time: their deliberative participation in the Chicago World's Fair of 1893.
Hailing from the United States and abroad, the more than eight hundred women speakers at the World's Fair included professionals, philanthropists, socialites, and reformers addressing issues such as suffrage, abolition, temperance, prison reform, and education. Maddux examines the planning of the event, the full program of women speakers, and dozens of speeches given in the fair's daily congresses. In particular, she analyzes the ways in which these women shaped the discourse at the fair and modeled to the world practices of democratic citizenship, including deliberative democracy, racial uplift, organizing, and economic participation. In doing so, Maddux shows how these pioneering women claimed sociopolitical ground despite remaining disenfranchised.
This carefully researched study makes significant contributions to the studies of rhetoric, American women's history, political history, and the history of the World's Fair itself. Most importantly, it sheds new light on women's activism in the late nineteenth century; even amidst the suffrage movement, women innovated practices of citizenship beyond the ballot box.
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Union is Strength
Nineteenth-century Canada experienced two other revolutions apart from those of W.L. Mackenzie and Louis Riel: the transition to capitalism, and to responsible government. Union Is Strength argues that these major socio-political changes happened in Ontario without a revolutionary moment because of the intertwined relationship of reformers with capitalists. Examining a small, utopian socialist group named the Children of Peace, Albert Schrauwers traces the emergence of a vibrant democratic culture in the province from the decade before the Rebellions of 1837. Schrauwers shows how the overlapping boards of unincorporated joint stock companies managed by both Toronto reformers and the Children of Peace produced a culture of deliberative democracy in competition with the \"gentlemanly capitalism\" of chartered corporations. Noting the ways in which Ontario's capitalist and democratic revolutions were linked through cooperative joint stock operations, he also situates these revolutions in an international context and links them to the development of Owenite socialism and Chartism in the United Kingdom. Union Is Strength is an insightful study of both nineteenth century Canada and the ways in which regional political cultures arise.
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Thinking Together
Changes to the landscape of higher education in the United
States over the past decades have urged scholars grappling with
issues of privilege, inequality, and social immobility to think
differently about how we learn and deliberate. Thinking
Together is a multidisciplinary conversation about how people
approached similar questions of learning and difference in the
nineteenth century.
In the open air, in homes, in public halls, and even in prisons,
people pondered recurring issues: justice, equality, careers,
entertainment, war and peace, life and death, heaven and hell, the
role of education, and the nature of humanity itself. Paying
special attention to the dynamics of race and gender in
intellectual settings, the contributors to this volume consider how
myriad groups and individuals-many of whom lived on the margins of
society and had limited access to formal education-developed and
deployed knowledge useful for public participation and public
advocacy around these concerns. Essays examine examples such as the
women and men who engaged lecture culture during the Civil War;
Irish immigrants who gathered to assess their relationship to the
politics and society of the New World; African American women and
men who used music and theater to challenge the white gaze; and
settler-colonists in Liberia who created forums for envisioning a
new existence in Africa and their relationship to a U.S. homeland.
Taken together, this interdisciplinary exploration shows how
learning functioned not only as an instrument for public action but
also as a way to forge meaningful ties with others and to affirm
the value of an intellectual life.
By highlighting people, places, and purposes that diversified
public discourse, Thinking Together offers scholars across
the humanities new insights and perspectives on how difference
enhances the human project of thinking together.
eBook
The Humanistic Economics of Krausismo
Current efforts of reconciling economics with ethics, as exemplified by the works of Amartya Sen, may be assisted by a glance back into the history of ideas. A tradition typically overlooked in Anglo-American scholarship, the Spanish and Latin America movement of krausismo, proposed a conception of a humanistic economics already in the late 19th century. This article reconstructs the intellectual premises of said tradition, portrays its participatory agenda for an integration of ethical norms into economic policy in a selected case and concludes with reflections on how to advance an economics in tune with society’s normative aspirations.
Journal Article
Practicing Citizenship
By 1893, the Supreme Court had officially declared women to be
citizens, but most did not have the legal right to vote. In
Practicing Citizenship , Kristy Maddux provides a glimpse
at an unprecedented alternative act of citizenship by women of the
time: their deliberative participation in the Chicago World's Fair
of 1893.
Hailing from the United States and abroad, the more than eight
hundred women speakers at the World's Fair included professionals,
philanthropists, socialites, and reformers addressing issues such
as suffrage, abolition, temperance, prison reform, and education.
Maddux examines the planning of the event, the full program of
women speakers, and dozens of speeches given in the fair's daily
congresses. In particular, she analyzes the ways in which these
women shaped the discourse at the fair and modeled to the world
practices of democratic citizenship, including deliberative
democracy, racial uplift, organizing, and economic participation.
In doing so, Maddux shows how these pioneering women claimed
sociopolitical ground despite remaining disenfranchised.
This carefully researched study makes significant contributions
to the studies of rhetoric, American women's history, political
history, and the history of the World's Fair itself. Most
importantly, it sheds new light on women's activism in the late
nineteenth century; even amidst the suffrage movement, women
innovated practices of citizenship beyond the ballot box.
eBook
The Capacity to Judge: Public Opinion and Deliberative Democracy in Upper Canada, 1791-1854
\"The Capacity to Judge: Public Opinion and Deliberative Democracy in Upper Canada, 1791-1854\" by Jeffrey L. McNairn is reviewed.
Book Review
The Presidential Republic: Executive Representation and Deliberative Democracy
\"The Presidential Republic: Executive Representation and Deliberative Democracy,\" by Gary L. Gregg II, is reviewed.
Book Review