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Book The Bad Wife s Looking Glass Or  God s Revenge Against Cruelty to Husbands

Download or read book The Bad Wife s Looking Glass Or God s Revenge Against Cruelty to Husbands written by Mason Locke Weems and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dueling Cultures  Damnable Legacies

Download or read book Dueling Cultures Damnable Legacies written by James Hill Welborn III and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did white Southerners in the nineteenth century reconcile a Christian faith that instructed them to turn the other cheek with a pervasive code of honor that instructed them to do just the opposite—to demand satisfaction for perceived insults? In Edgefield, South Carolina, in the 1830s, white Southerners combined these seemingly antithetical ideals to forge a new compound: a wrathful moral ethic of righteous honor. Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies investigates the formation and proliferation of this white supremacist ideology that merged masculine bellicosity with religious devotion. In 1856, when Edgefield native Preston Smith Brooks viciously beat the abolitionist Charles Sumner on the Senate floor, the ideology of righteous honor reached its apogee and took national center stage. Welborn analyzes the birth of this peculiar moral ethic in Edgefield and traces its increasing dominance across the American South in the buildup to the Civil War, as white Southerners sought to cloak a war fought in defense of slavery in the language of honor and Christian piety.

Book Selling God

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Laurence Moore
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 0195098382
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book Selling God written by Robert Laurence Moore and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a sweeping colourful history that spans over two centuries of American culture, Moore examines the role of religion in America as it appropriated (and was appropriated by) commercial culture. He reveals the centrality of religion, and the marketplace, in American popular culture.

Book The Methodist Quarterly Review

Download or read book The Methodist Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Devil s Lane

Download or read book The Devil s Lane written by Catherine Clinton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Europeans settled in the early South, they quarrelled fiercely over land. Contested areas became known as "the devil's lane". This work highlights important new work on sexuality, race, and gender in the South from the 17th to the 19th centuries.

Book Library of Southern Literature

Download or read book Library of Southern Literature written by Edwin Anderson Alderman and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library of Southern Literature

Download or read book Library of Southern Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library of Southern Literature  Biography

Download or read book Library of Southern Literature Biography written by Edwin Anderson Alderman and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Encyclopedia Americana

Download or read book The Encyclopedia Americana written by Frederick Converse Beach and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Encyclopedia Americana

Download or read book The Encyclopedia Americana written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beauty and the Brain

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  • Author : Rachel E. Walker
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2022-11-23
  • ISBN : 0226822575
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Beauty and the Brain written by Rachel E. Walker and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-11-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the history of phrenology and physiognomy, Beauty and the Brain proposes a bold new way of understanding the connection between science, politics, and popular culture in early America. Between the 1770s and the 1860s, people all across the globe relied on physiognomy and phrenology to evaluate human worth. These once-popular but now discredited disciplines were based on a deceptively simple premise: that facial features or skull shape could reveal a person’s intelligence, character, and personality. In the United States, these were culturally ubiquitous sciences that both elite thinkers and ordinary people used to understand human nature. While the modern world dismisses phrenology and physiognomy as silly and debunked disciplines, Beauty and the Brain shows why they must be taken seriously: they were the intellectual tools that a diverse group of Americans used to debate questions of race, gender, and social justice. While prominent intellectuals and political thinkers invoked these sciences to justify hierarchy, marginalized people and progressive activists deployed them for their own political aims, creatively interpreting human minds and bodies as they fought for racial justice and gender equality. Ultimately, though, physiognomy and phrenology were as dangerous as they were popular. In addition to validating the idea that external beauty was a sign of internal worth, these disciplines often appealed to the very people who were damaged by their prejudicial doctrines. In taking physiognomy and phrenology seriously, Beauty and the Brain recovers a vibrant—if largely forgotten—cultural and intellectual universe, showing how popular sciences shaped some of the greatest political debates of the American past.

Book The Americana

Download or read book The Americana written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Americana

Download or read book The Americana written by Frederick Converse Beach and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The WPA Guide to Maryland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Federal Writers' Project
  • Publisher : Trinity University Press
  • Release : 2013-10-23
  • ISBN : 1595342184
  • Pages : 561 pages

Download or read book The WPA Guide to Maryland written by Federal Writers' Project and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. The WPA Guide to Maryland has some of the most thorough driving tours in the series. From the Allegheny Plateau to the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Coast, the guide details Maryland’s diverse geography. The essays on the state’s two major cities—Baltimore and Annapolis—are especially engaging. Known as the Old Line State for its pivotal role in the American Revolution, Maryland’s rich history is also extensively detailed in the guide.

Book The United Editors Perpetual Encyclopedia

Download or read book The United Editors Perpetual Encyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: