The Romantic Revolution in America, 1800-1860
Author | : Vernon Louis Parrington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : Vernon Louis Parrington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : Vernon Louis Parrington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : Richard Hofstadter |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 2012-02-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307809609 |
Richard Hofstadter, the distinguished historian and twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, brilliantly assesses the ideas and contributions of the three major American interpretive historians of the twentieth century: Frederick Jackson Turner, Charles A. Beard and V.L. Parrington. These men, whose views of history were shaped in large part by the political battles of the Progressive era, provided the Progressive movement with a usable past and the American liberal mind with a historical tradition. The Progressive Historians is at once a critique of historical thought during this decisive period of American development and an account of how these three writers led American historians into the controversial political world of the twentieth century. Turner, in developing his idea that American democracy is the outcome of the experience of frontier expansion and the settlement of the West, introduced his fellow historians to a set of new concepts and methods, and in doing so doing re-drew the guidelines of American historiography. Beard insisted upon the elitist origins of the Constitution, crusaded for the economic interpretation of history, and ultimately staked his historical reputation on an isolationist view of recent American foreign policy. Parrington emphasized the moral and social functions of literature, and read the history of literature as a history of the national political mind. In recent years, the tide has run against the Progressive historians, as one specialist after another has taken issue with their interpretations. The movement of contemporary historical thought has led to a rediscovery of the complexity of the American past. Although he cannot share the faith of the Progressive historians in the sufficiency of American liberalism as a guide to the modern world, Richard Hofstadter believes we have much to learn about ourselves from a reconsideration of their insights.
Author | : Vernon Louis Parrington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter Hay |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2002-02-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780253215116 |
Professor Hay (environmental studies, U. of Tasmania) must have been a patient and long-time follower of environmental debate over the last 35 years to have masterfully untangled the myriad and subtle contentions and changes of heart in ecophilosophy, ecofeminism, ecoreligiosity and spirituality, green critiques of science, green politics, philosophies of place, and ecology's relationship to democracy and postmodernism. Hay's Tasmanian provenance seems less weakness than strength since he provides a more international perspective on environmentalism that includes Australia, North America, and Europe. Not only geographically wide-ranging, Hay is ideologically inclusive, bringing into the environmental forum --without apology or pride--discussions among animal rightists and their critics, and assertions that environmental concern is partially pre-rational. Reading Hay's environmental tome is likely to introduce even seasoned readers to new names (Deborah Slicer, John Rodman, Warwick Fox, Stephen Clark, Ariel Salleh) and so, new arguments. Suitable as a primary or secondary text for an advanced undergraduate or graduate class in environmental thought. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Vernon Louis Parrington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Vernon Louis Parrington |
Publisher | : New York : Harcourt, Brace |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2019-01-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190625384 |
Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation and experience, America and American thought grew in turn, enriched by the bounties of the Enlightenment, the philosophies of liberty and individuality, the tenets of religion, and the doctrines of republicanism and democracy. Crucial to this development were the thinkers who nurtured it, from Thomas Jefferson to Ralph Waldo Emerson, W.E.B. DuBois to Jane Addams, and Betty Friedan to Richard Rorty. The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History traces how Americans have addressed the issues and events of their time and place, whether the Civil War, the Great Depression, or the culture wars of today. Spanning a variety of disciplines, from religion, philosophy, and political thought, to cultural criticism, social theory, and the arts, Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen shows how ideas have been major forces in American history, driving movements such as transcendentalism, Social Darwinism, conservatism, and postmodernism. In engaging and accessible prose, this introduction to American thought considers how notions about freedom and belonging, the market and morality -- and even truth -- have commanded generations of Americans and been the cause of fierce debate.
Author | : Jane Petrlik Smolik |
Publisher | : Charlesbridge Publishing |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2015-09-08 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1580896480 |
This middle-grade historical novel follows three young girls living very different lives who are connected by one bottle that makes two journeys across the ocean. It's 1854 and eleven-year-old Bones is a slave on a Virginia plantation. When she finds her name in the slave-record book, she rips it out, rolls it up, and sets it free, corked inside a bottle alongside the carved peach pit heart her long-lost father made for her. Across the Atlantic on the Isle of Wight, motherless Lady Bess Kent and her sister discover Bones's bottle half-buried on the beach. Leaving Bones's name where it began and keeping the peach pit heart for herself, Bess hides her mother's pearl-encrusted cross necklace in the bottles so her scheming stepmother, Elsie, can't sell it off like she's done with other family heirlooms. When Harry, a local stonemason's son, takes the fall for Elsie's thefts, Bess works with her seafaring friend, Chap, to help him escape. She gives the bottle to Harry and tells him to sell the cross. Back across the Atlantic in Boston, Mary Margaret Casey and her father are at the docks when Mary Margaret spies something shiny. Her father fishes it out of the water, and they use the cross to pay for a much needed doctor's visit for Mary Margaret's ailing sister. As Bess did, Mary Margaret leaves Bones's name where it belongs. An epilogue returns briefly to each girl, completing the circle of the three unexpectedly interconnected lives.
Author | : H. Lark Hall |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1412842182 |
H. Lark Hall presents the first comprehensive biography of Vernon Louis Parrington (1871-1929). The recipient of the 1928 Pulitzer Prize in history for the first two volumes of his "Main Currents in American Thought," Parrington remains one of the most influential literary and historical scholars of the early twentieth century. Parrington was a man in search of a personal myth. He found his self-image successively mirrored in Victorian novels, painting, poetry, populism, religion, the arts and crafts movement, American literature, and American history. These changes were also reflected in his teaching as a professor of English--at the College of Emporia, the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Washington. Published late in his career, the two volumes of "Main Currents "represented the culmination of his search. Drawing upon his personal papers--including correspondence, diaries, and student course work, "Main Currents" chapter drafts, and other unpublished writings--Hall traces Parrington's intellectual development from his Midwestern childhood through his mid-life engagement with English poet and artist William Morris, then from the radical impact of "the new history" to the tempered post World War One reflection of his career at the University of Washington. Hall's reinterpretation of "Main Currents" emphasizes Parrington's concern with the drama of the life of the mind and links his historical viewpoint to his own personal history.