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Book A Knight of the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book A Knight of the Nineteenth Century written by Edward Payson Roe and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Working the Diaspora

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frederick Knight
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2010-01-01
  • ISBN : 0814748341
  • Pages : 243 pages

Download or read book Working the Diaspora written by Frederick Knight and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the sixteenth to early-nineteenth century, four times more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. While this forced migration stripped slaves of their liberty, it failed to destroy many of their cultural practices, which came with Africans to the New World. In Working the Diaspora, Frederick Knight examines work cultures on both sides of the Atlantic, from West and West Central Africa to British North America and the Caribbean. Knight demonstrates that the knowledge that Africans carried across the Atlantic shaped Anglo-American agricultural development and made particularly important contributions to cotton, indigo, tobacco, and staple food cultivation. The book also compellingly argues that the work experience of slaves shaped their views of the natural world. Broad in scope, clearly written, and at the center of current scholarly debates, Working the Diaspora challenges readers to alter their conceptual frameworks about Africans by looking at them as workers who, through the course of the Atlantic slave trade and plantation labor, shaped the development of the Americas in significant ways.

Book Greenbackers  Knights of Labor  and Populists

Download or read book Greenbackers Knights of Labor and Populists written by Matthew Hild and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hild shows that the Populist (or People's) Party, the most important third party of the 1890s, established itself most solidly in Texas, Alabama, and, under the guise of the earlier Union Labor Party, Arkansas, where farmer-labor political coalitions from the 1870s to mid-1880s had laid the groundwork for populism's expansion.

Book A Knight of the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book A Knight of the Nineteenth Century written by Edward Payson Roe and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Forest of Symbols

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  • Author : Andrei Pop
  • Publisher : Zone Books
  • Release : 2019-10-18
  • ISBN : 1935408364
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book A Forest of Symbols written by Andrei Pop and published by Zone Books. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking book, Andrei Pop presents a lucid reassessment of those writers and artists in the late nineteenth century whose work merits the adjective “symbolist.” For Pop, this term denotes an art that is self-conscious about its modes of making meaning and he argues that these symbolist practices, which sought to provide more direct access to the viewer by constant revision of its material means of meaning-making (brushstrokes on a canvas, words on a page), are crucial to understanding the genesis of modern art. The symbolists saw art not as a social revolution, but a revolution in sense and in how we conceptualize the world. At the same time, the concerns of symbolist painters and poets were shared to a remarkable degree by theoretical scientists of the period, especially by mathematicians and logicians who were dissatisfied with the strict empiricism dominant in their disciplines, and which made shared knowledge seem unattainable. A crisis of sense made art and science look for conceptual foundations underlying the diverging subjective responses and perceptions of individuals. Unlike other studies of this period, Pop’s focus is not on how individual artists may have absorbed bits of scientific theories, but rather on the philosophical questions that were relevant to both domains. The problem of subjectivity in particular, of what in one’s experience can and cannot be shared, was crucial to the possibility of collaboration within science and to the communication of artistic innovation. Pop’s brilliant close readings of the literary and visual practices of Manet and Mallarmé, of drawings by Ernst Mach, William James and Wittgenstein, of experiments with color by Bracquemond and Van Gogh, and of the philosophical systems of Frege and Russell add up to a startling but coherent picture of the symbolist heritage of modernity and its consequences.

Book Missionary Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth Century British Literature

Download or read book Missionary Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth Century British Literature written by Winter Jade Werner and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the missionary roots of cosmopolitanism through Romantic and Victorian literature, revealing the interconnectedness between evangelically motivated imperialisms and secularized cosmopolitanism.

Book Constructing Nineteenth Century Religion

Download or read book Constructing Nineteenth Century Religion written by Joshua King and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-02 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the ways in which religion was constructed as a category and region of experience in nineteenth-century literature and culture.

Book Slave Society in Cuba During the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book Slave Society in Cuba During the Nineteenth Century written by Franklin W. Knight and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Working class Intellectual in Eighteenth  and Nineteenth century Britain

Download or read book The Working class Intellectual in Eighteenth and Nineteenth century Britain written by Aruna Krishnamurthy and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays contributes to scholarship on the emergence of the working classes, by filtering the formation of working-class identity through the rise of the working-class intellectual, a unique cultural figure at the crossroads of two disparate worlds. The essays cover a range of familiar and unfamiliar figures from the 1730s to the 1850s, shedding light on key moments of working-class self-expression.

Book Good Words

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  • Author : Mark Knight
  • Publisher : Literature, Religion, & Postse
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9780814213933
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Good Words written by Mark Knight and published by Literature, Religion, & Postse. This book was released on 2019 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study explores how evangelicalism played a role in the development of the Victorian novel"--

Book An Alternative History of Pittsburgh

Download or read book An Alternative History of Pittsburgh written by Ed Simon and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[An] epic, atomic history of the Steel City . . . a work of literature, a series of linked creative nonfiction essays, an historical story cycle.” ―Phillip Maciak, Los Angeles Review of Books The land surrounding the confluence of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio rivers has supported communities of humans for millennia. Over the past four centuries, however, it has been transformed countless times by the many people who call it home. In this brief, lyrical, and idiosyncratic collection, Ed Simon, a staff writer at The Millions, follows the story of Pittsburgh through a series of interconnected segments, covering all manner of beloved people, places, and things, including: • Paleolithic Pittsburgh • The Whiskey Rebellion • The attempted assassination of Henry Frick • The Harmonists • The Mystery, Pittsburgh’s radical, Black nationalist newspaper • The myth of Joe Magarac • Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, Andy Warhol, and much, much more. Accessible and funny, An Alternative History of Pittsburgh is a must-read for anyone curious about this storied city, and for Pittsburghers who think they know it all too well already. “[A] rich and idiosyncratic history . . . Even Pittsburgh history buffs will learn something new.” —Publishers Weekly “Simon tells the story of the city and all the changes that made it what it is today in a way that's entirely new, by the hand of someone who is deeply familiar.” ―Juliana Rose Pignataro, Newsweek “A sparkling new take on everyone’s favorite Rust Belt metropolis.” ―Justin Velluci, Jewish Chronicle “A brilliant look at how geology and art, politics and religion, disaster and luck combine to build America’s great cities―one that will leave you wondering what secrets your own hometown might be hiding.” ―Anjali Sachdeva, author of All the Names They Used for God

Book The Works of E  P  Roe

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward Payson Roe
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1902
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 486 pages

Download or read book The Works of E P Roe written by Edward Payson Roe and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Knight of the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book A Knight of the Nineteenth Century written by Edward Payson Roe and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Knight of the Nineteenth Century is a story by Edward Payson Roe. A charming tale of salvation and romance with some pretty remarkable doses of spirituality slipped in.

Book Charles Knight

Download or read book Charles Knight written by Valerie Gray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Knight: Educator, Publisher, Writer is the first modern book-length study of this important nineteenth-century educational reformer, author, and publisher. Though he made significant contributions during his lifetime to the cause of popular education, providing inexpensive but quality reading material for the newly literate working classes, Knight has been largely ignored by scholars. This neglect, the author suggests, may be related to Knight's association with the controversial Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge and to the use scholars make of Knight's Penny Magazine and his two volumes on political economy to support their arguments on theories of social control and other issues. The author argues that Knight's reputation has suffered as a result. She reexamines the evidence to offer fresh assessments of Knight's life and work that illuminate his genuine achievements. She concludes with an evaluation of Knight's role as an innovative publisher who used the latest techniques to provide the emerging mass readership with unique combinations of text and image in his many 'pictorial' books and periodicals.

Book The Riddle and the Knight

Download or read book The Riddle and the Knight written by Giles Milton and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part travelogue/part historical mystery about the most famous traveler--and chronicler-- in medieval Europe. Giles Milton's first book, The Riddle and the Knight, is a fascinating account of the legend of Sir John Mandeville, a long-forgotten knight who was once the most famous writer in medieval Europe. Mandeville wrote a book about his voyage around the world that became a beacon that lit the way for the great expeditions of the Renaissance, and his exploits and adventures provided inspiration for writers such as Shakespeare, Milton, and Keats. By the nineteenth century however, his claims were largely discredited by academics. Giles Milton set off in the footsteps of Mandeville, in order to test his amazing claims, and to restore Mandeville to his rightful place in the literature of exploration. "Erudite, witty and adventurous" (The Mail on Sunday), The Riddle and the Knight is a brilliant piece of detective work.

Book A Knight of the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book A Knight of the Nineteenth Century written by E. P. (Edward Payson) Roe and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mysteries of the Cities

Download or read book The Mysteries of the Cities written by Stephen Knight and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A popular crime genre in the nineteenth century, urban mysteries have largely been ignored ever since. This historical and critical text examines the origins of the innovative genre, which grappled with the rise of enormous, anonymous cities, beginning in France in 1842, then spreading rapidly across the continent and to America and Australia. Writers covered include Eugene Sue, George Reynolds, Paul Feval, George Lippard, "Ned Buntline" and Donald Cameron.