Download or read book The Birth of Virginia s Aristocracy written by James C. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Birth Of Virginia's Aristocracy explains how the first civil society formed in Virginia, what purposes it served, who its members were, and what happened to it as it aged. The transformation of Virginia's leading families into an "aristocracy" was the final stage in the development of its first society. This was not just a matter of accumulating wealth and political influence. Virginia's aristocracy was born, the book explains, when Colonel Richard Lee II transferred his allegiance from the squabbling, fragmented community that surrounded him to a distant English Lord. The descendents of the men who filled Virginia's first general assembly followed Lee more or less en masse. By surrendering their personal sovereignty to Thomas, 5th lord Fairfax they effectively became members of the hierarchical/hereditary social system that ascended to the King of England. Why would they do this? The author points to the end result, which was a mechanism that preserved the community-at-large by perpetuating the authority of Virginia's patriarchs. Readers will find that the process in which society formed and evolved in this real world setting bore no clear resemblance to the process theorized by the political "scientists" writing on the subject at that time in England. The author suggests that understanding what actually happened in Virginia will help modern observers understand what happened - and is happening - elsewhere.
Download or read book Patrician and Plebeian in Virginia written by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Patrician and Plebeian in Virginia written by Thomas J. Wertenbaker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Patrician and Plebeian in Virginia: Or the Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion The origin of the aristocracy of colonial Virginia is a subject which has caused much controversy among students of the history of the Old Dominion. It was for many years the general belief that the leading planters were the descendants of English families of high rank, and that their aristocratic instincts were their birth - right, the heritage left them by noble ancestors. Others have maintained that the best families of Virginia came from the great English middle class, and the evidences upon the debated question which have been unearthed in recent years, tend to confirm this View. The author's own studies have led him to the conclusion that but few men of rank ever came to the wilderness of Vir ginia, and that the planters were in most cases the descendants of merchant ancestors. With this as a basis he has sought to point out the operation of the economic, social and political forces that operated upon the colo nists and instilled into them those instincts of chivalry and of pride that were so pronounced at the time of the Revolution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Virginia State Library 1877 Arranged Alphabetically written by Virginia State Library and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aristocratic Education and the Making of the American Republic written by Mark Boonshoft and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the American Revolution, it was a cliche that the new republic's future depended on widespread, informed citizenship. However, instead of immediately creating the common schools--accessible, elementary education--that seemed necessary to create such a citizenry, the Federalists in power founded one of the most ubiquitous but forgotten institutions of early American life: academies, privately run but state-chartered secondary schools that offered European-style education primarily for elites. By 1800, academies had become the most widely incorporated institutions besides churches and transportation projects in nearly every state. In this book, Mark Boonshoft shows how many Americans saw the academy as a caricature of aristocratic European education and how their political reaction against the academy led to a first era of school reform in the United States, helping transform education from a tool of elite privilege into a key component of self-government. And yet the very anti-aristocratic critique that propelled democratic education was conspicuously silent on the persistence of racial and gender inequality in public schooling. By tracing the history of academies in the revolutionary era, Boonshoft offers a new understanding of political power and the origins of public education and segregation in the United States.
Download or read book Aristocratic Souls in Democratic Times written by Richard Avramenko and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-05-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great statesmen and gentlemen, men of honor and rank, seem to be phenomena of a bygone Aristocratic era. Aristocracies, which emphasize rank, and value difference, quality, beauty, rootedness, continuity, stand in direct contrast to democracies, which value equality, autonomy, novelty, standardization, quantity, utility and mobility. Is there any place for aristocratic values and virtues in the modern democratic social and political order? This volume consists of essays by political theorists, historians, and literary theorists that explore this question in the works of aristocratic thinkers, both ancient and modern. The volume includes analyses of aristocratic virtues, interpretations of aristocratic assemblies and constitutions, both historic and contemporary, as well as critiques of liberal virtues and institutions. Essays on Tacitus, Hobbes, Burke, Tocqueville, Nietzsche, as well as some lesser known figures, such as Henri de Boulainvilliers, John Randolph of Roanoke, Louis de Bonald, Konstantin Leontiev, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Richard Weaver, and the Eighth Duke of Northumberland, explore ways of preserving and adapting the salutary aspects of the aristocratic ethos to the needs of modern liberal societies.
Download or read book Social Aspects of the Virginia Aristocracy in the Seventeenth Century written by Ruth Jane Larsen and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia written by Thomas Jefferson and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Colonial Virginia Book 1 3 written by Thomas J. Wertenbaker and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the Colonial Virginia is a three volume series dealing with the pre revolutionary Virginia. This series provides one of the best historical reviews of British rule in the New World and the life of colonial aristocracy. Contents Patrician and Plebeian The Aristocracy The Middle Class Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 The Founding of Virginia The Establishment of Representative Government The Expulsion of Sir John Harvey Governor Berkeley and the Commonwealth The Causes of Bacon's Rebellion Bacon's Rebellion The Period of Confusion The Critical Period The Planters of Colonial Virginia England in the New World The Indian Weed The Virginia Yeomanry Freemen and Freedmen The Restoration Period The Yeoman in Virginia History World Trade Beneath the Black Tide
Download or read book Virginia 1705 1786 written by Robert Eldon Brown and published by East Lansing, Michigan State U. P.. This book was released on 1964 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive study that attempts to disprove the common view that Virginia was ruled by a controlled aristocracy and to show that it had many features of a democratic society.
Download or read book Prairie Fever British Aristocrats in the American West 1830 1890 written by Peter Pagnamenta and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A deeply researched and finely delivered look at what can best be described as a counterintuitive slice of American history.”—Washington Post From the 1830s onward, a succession of well-born Britons headed west to the great American wilderness to find adventure and fulfillment. They brought their dogs, sporting guns, valets, and all the attitudes and prejudices of their class. Prairie Fever explores why the West had such a strong romantic appeal for them at a time when their inherited wealth and passion for sport had no American equivalent. In fascinating and often comic detail, the author shows how the British behaved—and what the fur traders, hunting guides, and ordinary Americans made of them—as they crossed the country to see the Indians, hunt buffalo, and eventually build cattle empires and buy up vast tracts of the West. But as British blue bloods became American landowners, they found themselves attacked and reviled as “land vultures” and accused of attempting a new colonization. In a final denouement, Congress moved against the foreigners and passed a law to stop them from buying land.
Download or read book American Aristocrats written by Harry S. Stout and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of an ambitious family at the forefront of the great middle-class land grab that shaped early American capitalism American Aristocrats is a multigenerational biography of the Andersons of Kentucky, a family of strivers who passionately believed in the promise of America. Beginning in 1773 with the family patriarch, a twice-wounded Revolutionary War hero, the Andersons amassed land throughout what was then the American west. As the eminent religious historian Harry S. Stout argues, the story of the Andersons is the story of America's experiment in republican capitalism. Congressmen, diplomats, and military generals, the Andersons enthusiastically embraced the emerging American gospel of land speculation. In the process, they became apologists for slavery and Indian removal, and worried anxiously that the volatility of the market might lead them to ruin. Drawing on a vast store of Anderson family records, Stout reconstructs their journey to great wealth as they rode out the cataclysms of their time, from financial panics to the Civil War and beyond. Through the Andersons we see how the lure of wealth shaped American capitalism and the nation's continental aspirations.
Download or read book Participation Community and Public Policy in a Virginia Suburb written by Patricia Farrell Donahue and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Participation, Community, and Public Policy in a Virginia Suburb: Of Our Own Making challenges the conventional wisdom about participation in modern American communities through the story of Pimmit Hills, Virginia—one of the first federally-financed subdivisions built for World War II veterans. Its story will be familiar to the millions of baby boomers who grew up in middle-class suburbs. This book argues that every community is the sum of all of the different types of participation—positive, negative, formal, informal, direct, and indirect—and not just the few participation activities that social surveys have tracked over the past few decades, such as voting or attending religious services. At the same time, Pimmit Hills’s story is unique. Its proximity to Washington, D.C., meant its residents had front-row seats to—and sometimes supporting roles in—the creation of policies that continue to shape the America we live in today, such as childhood vaccinations, discrimination, and information technology.
Download or read book The Rise Progress and Downfall of Aristocracy written by William Mathers and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writings on American History written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book West Virginia History written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
