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Book The American and British Debate Over Equality  1776   1920

Download or read book The American and British Debate Over Equality 1776 1920 written by James L. Huston and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have long contested the degree to which the central tenet of the Declaration of Independence—that all men are created equal—has manifested itself in American society and national policy. According to James L. Huston, many historians have focused too intently on class differences, slavery, and inequalities arising from ethnicity, sexuality, and gender, while overlooking important areas where notions of equality flourished during the century and a half after the Declaration’s signing. In The American and British Debate Over Equality, 1776–1920, Huston examines the egalitarian communities in rural northern America, particularly those enclaves that differed from the openly aristocratic cities and towns of the British Isles. In the aftermath of the American Revolution, British and American writers alike recognized that a growing philosophical rift divided the two nations: whereas Great Britain continued to embrace the inequality of its hierarchical class system, the United States professed allegiance to democratic ideals of equality—limited though these were by racial and gender norms of the day. Huston argues that the two countries engaged in an intellectual debate during the next century and a half over which ideal—equality or inequality—worked best in promoting social stability, political hegemony, and economic success. Exploring the effects of equality and inequality on many aspects of American life, he examines civil behavior, social customs, treatment of others, politics, education, religion, economic opportunity, and general public optimism. Drawing from decades of publications by American and British writers, Huston reveals the rhetorical strategies contemporary observers employed in defending or rejecting the organization of a society around broader notions of human equality. The American and British Debate Over Equality, 1776–1920 informs the modern debate over equality and inequality, not by theorizing and philosophizing, but by offering a glimpse into the practical applications of a functioning egalitarian society as compared to one that extolled monarchy and institutionalized inequality.

Book The North American Review

Download or read book The North American Review written by Jared Sparks and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.

Book The North American Review

Download or read book The North American Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sotheran s Price Current of Literature

Download or read book Sotheran s Price Current of Literature written by Henry Sotheran Ltd and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Domestication of Genius

Download or read book The Domestication of Genius written by Julian North and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-19 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the Lives of Byron, Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Landon, North explores how biographies by writers including Thomas Moore, Mary Shelley, Thomas De Quincey, both perpetuated and, by revealing private weaknesses and domestic failures, challenged the myth of 'the Romantic poet'.

Book Before Victoria

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth Denlinger
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2005-04-20
  • ISBN : 0231509936
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Before Victoria written by Elizabeth Denlinger and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-20 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It might not have the been the revolution that Mary Wollstonecraft called for in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), but the Romantic era did witness a dramatic change in women's lives. Combining literary and cultural history, this richly illustrated volume brings back to life a remarkable, though frequently overlooked, group of women who transformed British culture and inspired new ways of understanding feminine roles and female sexuality. What was this revolution like? Women were expected to be more moral, more constrained, and more private than in the eighteenth century, when women such as Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire crafted bold public personas. Genteel women no longer laughed aloud at bawdy jokes and noblewomen ran charity bazaars instead of private casinos. By 1800, motherhood had become a sacred calling and women who could afford to do so devoted themselves to the home. While this idealization of domesticity kept some women off the streets, it afforded others new opportunities. Often working from home, women wrote novels and poetry, sculpted busts, painted portraits, and conducted scientific research. They also seized the chance to do good, and crafted new public roles for themselves as philanthropists and reformers. Now-obscure female astronomers, photographers, sculptors, and mathematicians share these pages with celebrated writers such as Mary Shelley, her mother Mary Wollstonecraft, and Mary Robinson, who in addition to being a novelist and actress was also the mistress of the Prince of Wales. This book also makes full use of The New York Public Library's extensive collections, including graphic works and caricatures from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, manuscripts, hand-colored illustrations, broadsides, drawings, oil paintings, notebooks, albums and early photographs. These vivid, beautiful, and often humorous images depict these women, their works, and their social and domestic worlds.

Book The Farington Diary

Download or read book The Farington Diary written by Joseph Farington and published by . This book was released on 1802 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sotheran s Price Current of Literature

Download or read book Sotheran s Price Current of Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Farington Diary   1793 1821

Download or read book The Farington Diary 1793 1821 written by Joseph Farington and published by . This book was released on 1802 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue

Download or read book Catalogue written by Maggs Bros and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Collector

Download or read book The Collector written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book AB Bookman s Weekly

Download or read book AB Bookman s Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Farington Diary  July 13  1793  to August 24  1802  3d ed

Download or read book The Farington Diary July 13 1793 to August 24 1802 3d ed written by Joseph Farington and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Novel Relations

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  • Author : Ruth Perry
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2004-08-05
  • ISBN : 1139454439
  • Pages : 480 pages

Download or read book Novel Relations written by Ruth Perry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-05 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruth Perry describes the eighteenth-century transformation of the English family as a function of major social changes. She uses social history, literary analysis and anthropological kinship theory to examine texts by Austen, Richardson, Burney, and many others. This important study will be of interest to social and literary historians.

Book Catalogue of the Petworth Collection of Pictures in the Possession of Lord Leconfield

Download or read book Catalogue of the Petworth Collection of Pictures in the Possession of Lord Leconfield written by Charles Henry Wyndham Leconfield (3d baron) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Maggs Bros  Catalogues

Download or read book Maggs Bros Catalogues written by Maggs Bros and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: