Lecture On The Condition And True Interests Of The Laboring Class Of America
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Slavery and the American West
Author | : Michael A. Morrison |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2000-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807864323 |
Tracing the sectionalization of American politics in the 1840s and 1850s, Michael Morrison offers a comprehensive study of how slavery and territorial expansion intersected as causes of the Civil War. Specifically, he argues that the common heritage of the American Revolution bound Americans together until disputes over the extension of slavery into the territories led northerners and southerners to increasingly divergent understandings of the Revolution's legacy. Manifest Destiny promised the literal enlargement of freedom through the extension of American institutions all the way to the Pacific. At each step--from John Tyler's attempt to annex Texas in 1844, to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, to the opening shots of the Civil War--the issue of slavery had to be confronted. Morrison shows that the Revolution was the common prism through which northerners and southerners viewed these events and that the factor that ultimately made consensus impossible was slavery itself. By 1861, no nationally accepted solution to the dilemma of slavery in the territories had emerged, no political party existed as a national entity, and politicians from both North and South had come to believe that those on the other side had subverted the American political tradition.
American Economic History
Author | : Seymour E. Harris |
Publisher | : Beard Books |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781587981364 |
Analysis of economic history from about 1800 to the late 1950s.
Science Encounters the Indian, 1820-1880
Author | : Robert E. Bieder |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2003-05-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780806135717 |
Brilliantly written and copiously footnoted, this book details the life and work of five central figures in the development of American anthropology: Albert Gallatin, Samuel G. Morton, Ephraim G. Squier, Henry R. Schoolcraft, and Lewis Henry Morgan.Plains Anthropologist
Fortune, Fame, and Desire
Author | : Sharon Hartman Strom |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2016-09-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 144227266X |
In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, a widening set of opportunities in the public sphere opened up for ambitious men and women in the loosely structured stratum of “the middle class.” Much of the attention to the marketplace between 1820 and 1910 has described entrepreneurship and the beginnings of a more sophisticated economy, but not much has been paid to the commodification of the self. This book sets out to explore the promotion of the self in the rapidly growing economy and political flux of the nineteenth century. Its geography extends through New England, New York, the new states of the Midwest, and the great cities of the Mid-Atlantic, with an occasional trip to New Orleans, San Francisco and Los Angeles. The approach is biographical, using representative middle class figures to illuminate cultural and social history. Aided by more cheaply produced print and the clamor of the American public for entertainment both high and low brow, the figures described in this book strove for fame, sometimes achieved good fortune, and acted out desires for sexual pleasure, political success, and achieving the ideal in society. In doing so they questioned and rearranged the ideas of the early Republic. Poised between the dying class structure of the late eighteenth century and the rise of a more hierarchical one in the early twentieth, they took advantage of a society in flux to make their mark on American culture.
The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844
Author | : Frederick Engels |
Publisher | : BookRix |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 2014-02-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3730964852 |
The Condition of the Working Class in England is one of the best-known works of Friedrich Engels. Originally written in German as Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England, it is a study of the working class in Victorian England. It was also Engels' first book, written during his stay in Manchester from 1842 to 1844. Manchester was then at the very heart of the Industrial Revolution, and Engels compiled his study from his own observations and detailed contemporary reports. Engels argues that the Industrial Revolution made workers worse off. He shows, for example, that in large industrial cities mortality from disease, as well as death-rates for workers were higher than in the countryside. In cities like Manchester and Liverpool mortality from smallpox, measles, scarlet fever and whooping cough was four times as high as in the surrounding countryside, and mortality from convulsions was ten times as high as in the countryside. The overall death-rate in Manchester and Liverpool was significantly higher than the national average (one in 32.72 and one in 31.90 and even one in 29.90, compared with one in 45 or one in 46). An interesting example shows the increase in the overall death-rates in the industrial town of Carlisle where before the introduction of mills (1779–1787), 4,408 out of 10,000 children died before reaching the age of five, and after their introduction the figure rose to 4,738. Before the introduction of mills, 1,006 out of 10,000 adults died before reaching 39 years old, and after their introduction the death rate rose to 1,261 out of 10,000.
American Periodicals
Author | : Steven Lomazow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : American periodicals |
ISBN | : |
Sale Catalogues
Author | : American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1210 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Six Lectures Addressed to the Working Classes on the Improvement of Their Temporal Condition
Author | : William Garden Blaikie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1849 |
Genre | : Labor and laboring classes |
ISBN | : |