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Author : Harry Bischoff Weiss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Letter writing
ISBN : UCBK:B003003259
Author : David Barton,Nigel Hall
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027218032
This book explores the social significance of letter writing. Letter writing is one of the most pervasive literate activities in human societies, crossing formal and informal contexts. Letters are a common text type, appearing in a wide variety of forms in most domains of life. More broadly, the importance of letter writing can be seen in that the phenomenon has been widespread historically, being one of earliest forms of writing, and a wide range of contemporary genres have their roots in letters. The writing of a letter is embedded in a particular social situation, and like all other types of literacy objects and events, the activity gains its meaning and significance from being situated in cultural beliefs, values, and practices. This book brings together anthropologists, historians, educators and other social scientists, providing a range of case studies that explore aspects of the socially situated nature of letter writing.
Author : Martha Hodes
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393078398
A finalist for the Lincoln Prize, The Sea Captain's Wife "comes surprisingly, and movingly, alive" (Tina Jordan, Entertainment Weekly). Award-winning historian Martha Hodes brings us into the extraordinary world of Eunice Connolly. Born white and poor in New England, Eunice moved from countryside to factory city, worked in the mills, then followed her husband to the Deep South. When the Civil War came, Eunice's brothers joined the Union army while her husband fought and died for the Confederacy. Back in New England, a widow and the mother of two, Eunice barely got by as a washerwoman, struggling with crushing depression. Four years later, she fell in love with a black sea captain, married him, and moved to his home in the West Indies. Following every lead in a collection of 500 family letters, Hodes traced Eunice's footsteps and met descendants along the way. This story of misfortune and defiance takes up grand themes of American history—opportunity and racism, war and freedom—and illuminates the lives of ordinary people in the past. A Library Journal Best Book of the Year and a selection of the Book of the Month Club, Literary Guild, and Quality Paperback Book Club.
Author : Sarah Pearsall
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191559792
The Atlantic represented a world of opportunity in the eighteenth century, but it represented division also, separating families across its coasts. Whether due to economic shifts, changing political landscapes, imperial ambitions, or even simply personal tragedy, many families found themselves fractured and disoriented by the growth and later fissure of a larger Atlantic world. Such dislocation posed considerable challenges to all individuals who viewed orderly family relations as both a general and a personal ideal. The more fortunate individuals who thus found themselves 'all at sea' were able to use family letters, with attendant emphases on familiarity, sensibility, and credit, in order to remain connected in times and places of considerable disconnection. Portraying the family as a unified, affectionate, and happy entity in such letters provided a means of surmounting concerns about societies fractured by physical distance, global wars, and increasing social stratification. It could also provide social and economic leverage to individual men and women in certain circumstances. Sarah Pearsall explores the lives and letters of these families, revealing the sometimes shocking stories of those divided by sea. Ranging across the Anglophone Atlantic, including mainland American colonies and states, Britain, and the British Caribbean, Pearsall argues that it was this expanding Atlantic world, much more than the American Revolution, that reshaped contemporary ideals about families, as much as families themselves reshaped the transatlantic world.
Author : David M. Henkin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226327228
Americans commonly recognize television, e-mail, and instant messaging as agents of pervasive cultural change. But many of us may not realize that what we now call snail mail was once just as revolutionary. As David M. Henkin argues in The Postal Age, a burgeoning postal network initiated major cultural shifts during the nineteenth century, laying the foundation for the interconnectedness that now defines our ever-evolving world of telecommunications. This fascinating history traces these shifts from their beginnings in the mid-1800s, when cheaper postage, mass literacy, and migration combined to make the long-established postal service a more integral and viable part of everyday life. With such dramatic events as the Civil War and the gold rush underscoring the importance and necessity of the post, a surprisingly broad range of Americans—male and female, black and white, native-born and immigrant—joined this postal network, regularly interacting with distant locales before the existence of telephones or even the widespread use of telegraphy. Drawing on original letters and diaries from the period, as well as public discussions of the expanding postal system, Henkin tells the story of how these Americans adjusted to a new world of long-distance correspondence, crowded post offices, junk mail, valentines, and dead letters. The Postal Age paints a vibrant picture of a society where possibilities proliferated for the kinds of personal and impersonal communications that we often associate with more recent historical periods. In doing so, it significantly increases our understanding of both antebellum America and our own chapter in the history of communications.
Author : William A. Katz,Bill Katz
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0810832909
Provides a brief history of how reference works developed, but concentrates on how they reflect attitudes of their particular period of publication. Each chapter focuses on a basic reference form and highlights the major titles in its evolution.
Author : Gerald Carson
Publisher : Graymalkin Media
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631682933
Americans have traveled a far piece since Goody Randall climbed over the back of a Bay Colony pew in defense of her social position, or a frontier Congressman tried to eat the doilies at a White House dinner, or, more recently, since the adjustable Emily Post interpreted the social law on whether a lady’s maid could appear in bobbed hair. (She could not!) With unfailing scholarship, great good humor and occasional overtones of irony when snobbery raises its ugly nose, Gerald Carson here portrays the journey of American manners through shifting tastes and customs in regards to weddings, dances, hair styles, drinking, dueling, dress, smoking, the telephone, the automobile, the rise of the country club and the history of the fraternal lodge, among hundreds of topics. There is much of special interest to citizens of Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York and many other cities. There is a full chapter on manners in the nation’s capital as well as one on books of etiquette. The author’s emphasis is upon the middle class, the mainstream of America’s national life, rather than Society with the capital S. This field has been plowed a good many times, while Mr. Carson’s area is almost untouched. His central theme is the reaching out of the American man and woman for self-improvement and a life of some grace. Citizens of the United States are still free to become, as the late Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger pointed out, as unequal as they can.
Author : Christopher G. A. Bryant,David Jary
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0415116929
Anthony Giddens has made original contributions to the fields of social theory, political sociology, the sociology of stratifications & suicide. This set includes carefully selected secondary articles which bring out the scope of his work.
Author : George Thomas Tanselle
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1146 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Bibliographical literature
ISBN : 0674367618
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006968817
Author : New York Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UOM:39015082926240
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Author : Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UOM:39015082923379
Author : Jennifer R. Dawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Epistolary fiction, American
ISBN : MSU:31293023720331
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Williamsburg, Va : Moebs Publishing Company
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : IND:30000001020035
Author : James Michael Farrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89016510265
