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Author : Edward Kimber
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : British
ISBN : 0874136318
Like subsequent European visitors - Chastellux, Chateaubriand, the Duc de la Rochefoucauld, De Tocqueville, Dickens, and Anthony Trollope - Kimber's point of view remains that of an outsider.
Author : Harvey H. Jackson,Phinizy Spalding
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 082030705X
This collection of essays grew out of a symposium commemorating the 250th anniversary of the founding of Georgia. The contributors are authorities in their respective fields and their efforts represent not only the fruits of long careers but also the observations and insights of some of the most promising young scholars. Forty Years of Diversity sheds new light on the social, political, religious, and ethnic diversity of colonial Georgia.
Author : Andrew H. Browning
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700633098
“Whatever Principles are imbibed at College will run thro’ a Man’s whole future Conduct.” —William Livingston, signer of the Constitution Schools for Statesmen explores the fifty-five individual Framers of the Constitution in close detail and argues that their different educations help explain their divergent positions at the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Those educations ranged from outlawed Irish “hedge schools” to England’s venerable Inns of Court, from the grammar schools of New England to ambitious new academies springing up on the Carolina frontier. The more traditional schools that focused on Greek and Latin classics (Oxford, Harvard, Yale, William and Mary) were deeply conservative institutions resistant to change. But the Scottish colleges and the newer American schools (Princeton, Philadelphia, King's College) introduced students to a Scottish Enlightenment curriculum that fostered more radical, forward-thinking leaders. Half of the Framers had no college education and were often self-taught or had private tutors; most were quiet at the convention, although a few stubbornly opposed the new ideas they were hearing. Nearly all the delegates who took the lead at the convention had been educated at the newer, innovative colleges, but of the seven who rejected the new Constitution, three had gone to the older traditional schools, while three others had not gone to college at all. Schools for Statesmen is an unprecedented analysis of the sharply divergent educations of the Framers of the Constitution. It reveals the ways in which the Constitutional Convention, rather than being a counterrevolution by conservative elites, was dominated by forward-thinking innovators who had benefited from the educational revolution beginning in the mid-eighteenth century. Andrew Browning offers a new and persuasive explanation of key disagreements among the Framers and the process by which they were able to break through the impasse that threatened the convention; he provides a fresh understanding of the importance of education in what has been called the "Critical Period" of US history. Schools for Statesmen takes a deep dive into the diverse educational world of the eighteenth century and sheds new light on the origins of the US Constitution.
Author : Charles Colcock Jones
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429004381
Written by Charles C. Jones, Jr., the 19th century's foremost historian of Georgia and former mayor of Savannah, The Dead Towns of Georgia is an insightful look into the history of Georgia through a detailed examination of towns that flourished and then faded away. With specific emphasis on the colonial period, the work explores the role Georgia's settlers played in conflicts with Spanish and British colonial powers, as well as the economic and social factors that caused these towns to thrive, but ultimately not to survive. Specific focus is given to the towns of Old Ebenezer (1733) on the Savannah River, Frederica (1735) on St. Simon's Island, Abercorn (1733) on a tributary of the Savannah, Sunbury (1758) on the Medway River, and Hardwick (1755) on the Ogeechee River, but the communities of Petersburg, Jacksonborough, and Francisville, among others, are also mentioned. With extensive citations and footnotes, as well as maps of several of the communities, this is a valuable resource to anyone interested in the history of the South or in the development and dissolution of towns'Ķwhat makes a town survive and thrive, or what makes people move on elsewhere.
Author : Georgia Historical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Georgia
ISBN : UVA:X000363611
Author : Charles C. Jones, Jr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555036722
Author : Thomas Durant Visser
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781611682205
A complete architectural guide to this well-loved building feature
Author : Susan Strawn
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-13
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781610602495
“Susan has placed the history of knitting within the context of American history, so we can clearly see how knitting is intertwined with such subjects as geography, migration, politics, economics, female emancipation, and evolving social mores. She has traced how a melting pot of knitting traditions found their way into American culture via vast waves of immigration, expanded opportunity for travel, and technology.” —Melanie Falick This is the history that Knitting America celebrates. Beautifully illustrated with vintage pattern booklets, posters, postcards, black-and-white historical photographs, and contemporary color photographs of knitted pieces in private collections and in museums, this book is an exquisite view of America through the handiwork of its knitters.
Author : Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199720156
The Oxford Handbook of Early American Literature is a major new reference work that provides the best single-volume source of original scholarship on early American literature. Comprised of twenty-seven chapters written by experts in their fields, this work presents an authoritative, in-depth, and up-to-date assessment of a crucial area within literary studies. Organized primarily in terms of genre, the chapters include original research on key concepts, as well as analysis of interesting texts from throughout colonial America. Separate chapters are devoted to literary genres of great importance at the time of their composition that have been neglected in recent decades, such as histories, promotion literature, and scientific writing. New interpretations are offered on the works of Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards and Dr. Alexander Hamilton while lesser known figures are also brought to light. Newly vital areas like print culture and natural history are given full treatment. As with other Oxford Handbooks, the contributors cover the field in a comprehensive yet accessible way that is suitable for those wishing to gain a good working knowledge of an area of study and where it's headed.
Author : Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0803224087
Documents the record-setting, cross-country cycling trip by George Nellis in 1887.
Author : John Austin Stevens,Benjamin Franklin DeCosta,Henry Phelps Johnston,Martha Joanna Lamb,Nathan Gillett Pond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : United States
ISBN : PRNC:32101076896941
Author : Herbert Baxter Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Education
ISBN : NYPL:33433075998678
Author : Edward Augustus Freeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Local government
ISBN : IND:30000098315066
Author : Edward Augustus Freeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Local government
ISBN : OXFORD:N10586422
Author : Alain Kerhervé
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527553408
How did people learn to write letters in the eighteenth century? Among other books, letter-writing manuals provided a possible solution. Although more than 160 editions can be traced for the eighteenth century, most manuals were largely intended for men. As a consequence, when The Ladies Complete Letter-Writer was released in London in 1763, it was the first manual to be exclusively destined for women in eighteenth-century Britain. Even though it was published anonymously, several elements tend to show that it must have been edited by Edward Kimber. It was reprinted in Dublin in 1763 and in London in 1765 and largely circulated. The reasons for its success may have come from its concern in epistolary rhetoric, its original organisation, or the entertainment provided by examples coming from different sources, among which letters by Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Mary Collier, or the Marquise de Lambert. It also provided women with a variety of subjects which were supposed to be part of their sphere of interest, and others which were not, thus questioning a number of pre-conceived ideas on women and their way of writing with or without propriety. Unedited since 1765, the manual is now presented with introduction, notes and two indices focusing on the issues of sources, society and epistolary writing.