After The Revolution Profiles Of Early American Culture
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After The Revolution Profiles Of Early American Culture
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Author : Joseph J. Ellis
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2002-03-17
After The Revolution Profiles Of Early American Culture written by Joseph J. Ellis and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-03-17 with History categories.
Through portraits of four figures—Charles Willson Peale, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, William Dunlap, and Noah Webster—Joseph Ellis provides a unique perspective on the role of culture in post-Revolutionary America, both its high expectations and its frustrations. An entrepreneur, a writer who wanted to depict an ideal society, a dramatist who tried to reconcile high aesthetic standards and populism, and a Connecticut Yankee who ran into the contradictions of conservatism and liberalism—each of the four men depicted in this book had a vision of what kind of society post-Revolutionary America should be. Through portraits of these bellwether figures, the prize-winning historian Joseph J. Ellis examines the currents that were shaping the new country.
The Cause
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Author : Joseph J. Ellis
language : en
Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
Release Date : 2022
The Cause written by Joseph J. Ellis and has been published by Thorndike Press Large Print this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with History categories.
George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction. At the time, no one called it the "American Revolution" former colonists still regarded themselves as Virginians or Pennsylvanians, not Americans, while John Adams insisted that the British were the real revolutionaries, for attempting to impose radical change without their colonists' consent. With The Cause, Ellis takes a fresh look at the events between 1773 and 1783, recovering a war more brutal than any in American history save the Civil War and discovering a strange breed of "prudent" revolutionaries, whose prudence proved wise yet tragic when it came to slavery, the original sin that still haunts our land. Written with flair and drama, The Cause brings together a cast of familiar and forgotten characters who, taken together, challenge the story we have long told ourselves about our origins as a people and a nation.
After The Revolution
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
After The Revolution written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Communism categories.
Founding Brothers
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Author : Joseph J. Ellis
language : en
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Release Date : 2002-02
Founding Brothers written by Joseph J. Ellis and has been published by Perfection Learning this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Discusses how the greatest American statesmen of the 1790s--Adams, Burr, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and Washington--came together to define the new republic and direct its course for the coming centuries. Pulitzer Prize Winner.
Early American Theatre From The Revolution To Thomas Jefferson
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Author : Heather S. Nathans
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-07-17
Early American Theatre From The Revolution To Thomas Jefferson written by Heather S. Nathans and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-17 with Drama categories.
This 2003 book examines the growth and influence of the theatre in the development of the young American Republic.
American Creation
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Author : Joseph J. Ellis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-10-01
American Creation written by Joseph J. Ellis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From the first shots fired at Lexington to the signing of the Declaration of Independence to the negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase, Joseph J. Ellis guides us through the decisive issues of the nation's founding, and illuminates the emerging philosophies, shifting alliances, and personal and political foibles of our now iconic leaders—Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, and Adams. He casts an incisive eye on the founders' achievements, arguing that the American Revolution was, paradoxically, an evolution—and that part of what made it so extraordinary was the gradual pace at which it occurred. He explains how the idea of a strong federal government was eventually embraced by the American people and details the emergence of the two-party system, which stands as the founders' most enduring legacy. Ellis is equally incisive about their failures, and he makes clear how their inability to abolish slavery and to reach a just settlement with the Native Americans has played an equally important role in shaping our national character. With eloquence and insight, Ellis strips the mythic veneer of the revolutionary generation to reveal men both human and inspired, possessed of both brilliance and blindness. American Creation is an audiobook that delineates an era of flawed greatness, at a time when understanding our origins is more important than ever.
Founding Brothers
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Author : Joseph J. Ellis
language : en
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
Release Date : 2001-03
Founding Brothers written by Joseph J. Ellis and has been published by Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03 with Large print books categories.
Ellis focuses on six discrete moments exemplifying crucial issues facing the new nation: Burr and Hamilton's duel, and what may really have happened; Hamilton, Jefferson, and Madison's secret dinner, during which the seat of the permanent capital was determined in exchange for passage of Hamilton's financial plan; Franklin's petition to end the "peculiar institution" of slavery--and Madison's efforts to quash it; Washington's Farewell Address, announcing his retirement from public office and offering his country some final advice; Adam's difficult term as Washington's successor and his alleged scheme to pass the presidency on to his son; and finally, Adams and Jefferson's renewed correspondence at the end of their lives, in which they compared their different views of the Revolution and its legacy.
The Culture And Commerce Of The Early American Novel
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Author : Stephen Shapiro
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2010-11
The Culture And Commerce Of The Early American Novel written by Stephen Shapiro and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
Taking his cue from Philadelphia-born novelist Charles Brockden Brown's Annals of Europe and America, which contends that America is shaped most noticeably by the international struggle between Great Britain and France for control of the world trade market, Stephen Shapiro charts the advent, decline, and reinvigoration of the early American novel. That the American novel "sprang so unexpectedly into published existence during the 1790s" may be a symptom of the beginning of the end of Franco-British supremacy and a reflection of the power of a middle class riding the crest of a new world economic system. Shapiro's world-systems approach is a relatively new methodology for literary studies, but it brings two particularly useful features to the table. First, it refines the conceptual frameworks for analyzing cultural and social history, such as the rise in sentimentalism, in relation to a long-wave economic history of global commerce; second, it fosters a new model for a comparative American Studies across time. Rather than relying on contiguous time, a world-systems approach might compare the cultural production of one region to another at the same location within the recurring cycle in an economic reconfiguration. Shapiro offers a new way of thinking about the causes for the emergence of the American novel that suggests a fresh way of rethinking the overall paradigms shaping American Studies.
The Geographic Revolution In Early America
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Author : Martin Brückner
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2012-12-01
The Geographic Revolution In Early America written by Martin Brückner and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-01 with History categories.
The rapid rise in popularity of maps and geography handbooks in the eighteenth century ushered in a new geographic literacy among nonelite Americans. In a pathbreaking and richly illustrated examination of this transformation, Martin Bruckner argues that geographic literacy as it was played out in popular literary genres--written, for example, by William Byrd, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Royall Tyler, Charles Brockden Brown, Meriwether Lewis, and William Clark--significantly influenced the formation of identity in America from the 1680s to the 1820s. Drawing on historical geography, cartography, literary history, and material culture, Bruckner recovers a vibrant culture of geography consisting of property plats and surveying manuals, decorative wall maps and school geographies, the nation's first atlases, and sentimental objects such as needlework samplers. By showing how this geographic revolution affected the production of literature, Bruckner demonstrates that the internalization of geography as a kind of language helped shape the literary construction of the modern American subject. Empirically rich and provocative in its readings, The Geographic Revolution in Early America proposes a new, geographical basis for Anglo-Americans' understanding of their character and its expression in pedagogical and literary terms.
The Cambridge Introduction To Early American Literature
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Author : Emory Elliott
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-08-29
The Cambridge Introduction To Early American Literature written by Emory Elliott and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-08-29 with History categories.
The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature offers students a literary history of American writing in English between 1492 and 1820, as well as providing a concise social and cultural history of these three centuries. Emory Elliott traces the impact of race, gender, and ethnic conflict on early American culture, and explores the centrality of American Puritanism in the formation of a distinctively American literature. This highly engaging and comprehensive study will be essential reading for students of the literature, history and culture of early America.