Download or read book Washington Brotherhood written by Rachel A. Shelden and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional portrayals of politicians in antebellum Washington, D.C., describe a violent and divisive society, full of angry debates and violent duels, a microcosm of the building animosity throughout the country. Yet, in Washington Brotherhood, Rachel Shelden paints a more nuanced portrait of Washington as a less fractious city with a vibrant social and cultural life. Politicians from different parties and sections of the country interacted in a variety of day-to-day activities outside traditional political spaces and came to know one another on a personal level. Shelden shows that this engagement by figures such as Stephen Douglas, John Crittenden, Abraham Lincoln, and Alexander Stephens had important consequences for how lawmakers dealt with the sectional disputes that bedeviled the country during the 1840s and 1850s--particularly disputes involving slavery in the territories. Shelden uses primary documents--from housing records to personal diaries--to reveal the ways in which this political sociability influenced how laws were made in the antebellum era. Ultimately, this Washington "bubble" explains why so many of these men were unprepared for secession and war when the winter of 1860-61 arrived.
Download or read book The Social Life of George Washington written by and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Social Sciences Go to Washington written by Hamilton Cravens and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when the allegedly value-free social sciences enter the national political arena? In The Social Sciences Go to Washington, scholars examine the effects of the massive influx of sociologists, demographers, economists, educators, and others to the federal advisory process in the postwar period. Essays look at how these social scientists sought to change existing policies in welfare, public health, urban policy, national defense, environmental policy, and science and technology policy, and the ways they tried to influence future policies. Policymakers have been troubled that followers of postmodernism have questioned the legitimacy of scientific and political authority to speak for the desires of social groups. As the social sciences increasingly become expressions of individual preferences, the contributors ask, how can they continue to be used to set public policy for us all? This collection is a useful resource for anyone studying the relationship between science and the government in the postwar years.
Download or read book Land Use Environment and Social Change written by Richard White and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whidbey and Camano, two of the largest of the numerous beautiful islands dotting Puget Sound, together form the major part of Island Country. Taking this county as a case study and following its history from Indian times to the present, Richard White explores the complex relationship between human induced environmental change and social change. This new edition of his classic study includes a new preface by the author and a foreword by William Cronon.
Download or read book Social Register Washington written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes "Dilatory domiciles"; for some volumes, some of these updates are issued separately as supplements.
Download or read book The Coming of the Civil War written by Avery Craven and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1957 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stimulating and profound analysis of the factors which brought a nation into war with itself.
Download or read book Hand Book of Official and Social Etiquette and Public Ceremonials at Washington written by De B.R. Keim and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1889 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Manual of Rules, Precedents, and Forms in Vogue in Official and Social Life at the Seat of Government of the United States, for the guidance and information of Officials, Diplomats, Strangers, and Residents. Also a guide for diplomatic and consular representatives of the United States in foreign countries. Third Edition.
Download or read book Social Usages at Washington written by Florence Howe Hall and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book George Washington Memorial Institute for the Social Sciences written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Special Subcommittee on Evaluation and Planning of Social Programs and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Master George s People written by Marfe Ferguson Delano and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first President of the United States of America and the Commander in Chief who led a rebel army to victory in the Revolutionary War, George Washington was a legendary leader of men. He had high expectations of his soldiers, employees, and associates. At his Virginia plantation, Mount Vernon, his expectations of his workers were no different: "I expect such labor as they ought to render" he wrote. Except there was a big difference. The workers who kept Mount Vernon operating were enslaved. And although Washington called them "my people," by law they were his property. But the people of Mount Vernon were so much more, and they each have compelling stories to tell. These are fascinating portraits of cooks, overseers, valets, farm hands, and more- essential people nearly lost in the shadows of the past- interwoven with an extraordinary examination of the conscience of the Father of Our Country.
Download or read book The Dry Years written by Norman H. Clark and published by UBS Publishers' Distributors. This book was released on 1988 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the event of its publication in 1965, Murray Morgan wrote, The Dry Years, which might be subtitled 'The Fall and Rise of John Barleycorn, ' is a delightful blend of scholarship, narrative exposition and wit. ...Clark is knowing and acid about alcohol as a class problem. he points out that the drys were usually led by upperclass types whose peers would derive benefit by better habits in the working class. He does not, however, fall into the trap of attributing the attitudes of the reformers to hypocrisy. The drys were awash with sincerity. ...It is one of the many merits of this delightful book that Norman Clark does not rub our noses in the fact that though times change, problems remain. In this substantially updated edition of the classic story of a region's experience with Prohibition, Norman Clark reviews to the present the political history of liquor control in Washington State, and issue taken seriously in the state and the nation as those of black slavery, wage slavery, and child welfare. He traces the effect of social change upon liquor morality through nearly two hundred years of efforts to make the use of alcohol compatible with the American view of social progress.
Download or read book Social Washington written by Anne Squire and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Register Locater written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The locater lists in alphabetical order every name in all the Social registers and indicates the family's head under which it may be found and the city in which the name appears.
Download or read book George Washington written by Woodrow Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Social Recorder of Virginia written by Henry Brantly Handy and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
