Описание: This book sheds new light on the role of religion in the nineteenth-century slavery debates. Luke E. Harlow argues that the ongoing conflict over the meaning of Christian `orthodoxy` constrained the political and cultural horizons available for defenders and opponents of American slavery.
Автор: William G. Hyland Jr. Название: Thomas Jefferson: Family Secrets ISBN: 1645720454 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781645720454 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 5352.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Much has been written about Thomas Jefferson, the public man, and with good reason: he was the architect of our democracy and a visionary who expanded the nations physical boundaries to unimagined lengths. But the intensely private Jefferson joined in a conspiracy to make himself unknowable to the public . Thomas Jefferson: Family Secrets is a new and unprecedented examination of the intimate Thomas Jefferson—from his return to Monticello after two terms as president until his death. Author William G. Hyland Jr. pierces Jeffersons private family veil and reveals little-known, poignant scenes of the relatives closest to Jefferson in his last years. Thomas Jefferson: Family Secrets is the first biography to uncover the dynamic relationship Jefferson had with his adult grandchildren. With a novelists skill and a scholars meticulous detail, Thomas Jefferson: Family Secrets explores new ground in Jeffersons autumn years as a waning patriarch, enduring physical illness and family strife. These glimpses of Jeffersons inner character will change the way readers think about this American icon: as a flawed—but benevolent—man.
Описание: Presents the story of the Chanka people of Peru, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, told through a narrative of the crimes committed by a priest, Juan Bautista de Albadan, in the early 1600s.
Описание: This book sheds new light on the role of religion in the nineteenth-century slavery debates. Luke E. Harlow argues that the ongoing conflict over the meaning of Christian `orthodoxy` constrained the political and cultural horizons available for defenders and opponents of American slavery.
Описание: In this first full-length study of Claiborne Fox Jackson, Christopher Phillips offers much more than a traditional biography. His analysis of Jackson`s rise to power through the tangle that was Missouri`s antebellum politics and of Jackson`s actions in pursuit of his state`s secession complete the deeper and broader story of regional identity.
Описание: While a political refugee in London, former Confederate general John G. Walker wrote a history of the Civil War west of the Mississippi River. Walker`s account, composed shortly after the war and unpublished until now, remains one of only two memoirs by high-ranking Confederate officials who fought in the Trans-Mississippi theatre.
Описание: Historian E. Merton Coulter famously said that Kentucky ""waited until after the war was over to secede from the Union."" In this fresh study, Anne E. Marshall traces the development of a Confederate identity in Kentucky between 1865 and 1925 that belied the fact that Kentucky never left the Union and that more Kentuckians fought for the North than for the South. Following the Civil War, the people of Kentucky appeared to forget their Union loyalties, embracing the Democratic politics, racial violence, and Jim Crow laws associated with formerly Confederate states. Although, on the surface, white Confederate memory appeared to dominate the historical landscape of postwar Kentucky, Marshall's closer look reveals an active political and cultural dialogue that included white Unionists, Confederate Kentuckians, and the state's African Americans, who, from the last days of the war, drew on Union victory and their part in winning it to lay claim to the fruits of freedom and citizenship. Rather than focusing exclusively on postwar political and economic factors, Creating a Confederate Kentucky looks over the longer term at Kentuckians' activities--public memorial ceremonies, dedications of monuments, and veterans organizations' events--by which they commemorated the Civil War and fixed the state's remembrance of it for sixty years following the conflict. |Marshall traces the development of a Confederate identity in Kentucky between 1865 and 1925 that belied the fact that Kentucky never left the Union and that more Kentuckians fought for the North than for the South. Following the Civil War, the people of Kentucky appeared to forget their Union loyalties, embracing the Democratic politics, racial violence, and Jim Crow laws associated with formerly Confederate states.
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