The surprising story of how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson came to despair for the future of the nation they had created
Americans seldom deify their Founding Fathers any longer, but they do still tend to venerate the Constitution and the republican government that the founders created. Strikingly, the founders themselves were far less confident in what they had wrought, particularly by the end of their lives. In fact, most of them--including George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson--came to deem America's constitutional experiment an utter failure that was unlikely to last beyond their own generation. Fears of a Setting Sun is the first book to tell the fascinating and too-little-known story of the founders' disillusionment. As Dennis Rasmussen shows, the founders' pessimism had a variety of sources: Washington lost his faith in America's political system above all because of the rise of partisanship, Hamilton because he felt that the federal government was too weak, Adams because he believed that the people lacked civic virtue, and Jefferson because of sectional divisions laid bare by the spread of slavery. The one major founder who retained his faith in America's constitutional order to the end was James Madison, and the book also explores why he remained relatively optimistic when so many of his compatriots did not. As much as Americans today may worry about their country's future, Rasmussen reveals, the founders faced even graver problems and harbored even deeper misgivings. A vividly written account of a chapter of American history that has received too little attention, Fears of a Setting Sun will change the way that you look at the American founding, the Constitution, and indeed the United States itself.
Автор: Children of the Setting Sun Productions Название: Jesintel: Living Wisdom from Coast Salish Elders ISBN: 0295748648 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295748641 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4383.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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Dynamic and diverse, Coast Salish culture is bound together by shared values and relations that generate a resilient worldview. Jesintel—"to learn and grow together"—characterizes the spirit of this book, which brings the cultural teachings of nineteen elders to new generations.
Featuring interviews that share powerful experiences and stories, Jesintel illuminates the importance of ethical reciprocal relationships and the interconnectedness of places, land, water, and the spirit within all things. Elders offer their perspectives on language revitalization, Coast Salish family values and naming practices, salmon, sovereignty, canoe racing, and storytelling. They also share traumatic memories, including of their boarding school experiences and the epidemics that ravished their communities. Jesintel highlights the importance of maintaining relations and traditions in the face of ongoing struggles. Collaboration is at the heart of this work and informs how the editors and community came together to honor the boundless relations of Coast Salish people and their territories.
Elders Interviewed: Tom Sampson (Tsartlip First Nation) Virginia Cross (Muckleshoot Tribe) Ernestine Gensaw (Lummi Nation) Steve and Gwen Point (St?:l? Nation) Gene and Wendy Harry (Malahat Nation) Claude Wilbur (Swinomish Tribe) Richard Solomon (Lummi Nation) Elaine Grinell (Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe) Arvid Charlie (Cowichan Nation) Amy George (Tsleil-Waututh Nation) Nancy Shippentower (Nisqually Tribe) Nolan Charles (Musqueam Indian Band) Andy de los Angeles (Snoqualmie Tribe) Jewell James (Lummi Nation) Kenny Moses Sr. Family (Tulalip Tribal Nation) Ramona Morris (Lummi Nation)
Автор: Faber, Eli Название: Jews, slaves, and the slave trade ISBN: 0814726399 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814726396 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 4156.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Focusing on the British empire, this book assesses the extent to which Jews participated in the institution of slavery through investment in slave trading companies, ownership of slave ships, commercial activity as merchants who sold slaves upon their arrival from Africa, and direct ownership of slaves.
Автор: Harbridge Название: Is Bipartisanship Dead? ISBN: 1107439280 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107439283 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4592.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Why has voting in Congress become so partisan? Does partisanship in voting indicate that there is no common ground left between American parties? Laurel Harbridge`s findings in Is Bipartisanship Dead? shed light on whether partisan conflict is insurmountable, underscore how political parties manufacture partisan conflict, and speak to questions of representation and governance.
Автор: David B. Sachsman, Gregory A. Borchard Название: The Antebellum Press: Setting the Stage for Civil War ISBN: 0367196808 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367196806 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Antebellum Press: Setting the Stage for Civil War reveals the critical role of journalism in the years leading up to America`s deadliest conflict by exploring the events that foreshadowed and, in some ways, contributed directly to the outbreak of war.
Описание: The Second Coming of Christ, the resurrection of the dead, the Final Judgment: the Apocalypse is central to Christianity and has evolved throughout Christianity’s long history. Thus, when ecclesiastics brought the Apocalypse to Indigenous audiences in the Americas, both groups adapted it further, reflecting new political and social circumstances. The religious texts in Aztec and Maya Apocalypses, many translated for the first time, provide an intriguing picture of this process—revealing the influence of European, Aztec, and Maya worldviews on portrayals of Doomsday by Spanish priests and Indigenous authors alike. The Apocalypse and Christian eschatology played an important role in the conversion of the Indigenous population and often appeared in the texts and sermons composed for their consumption. Through these writings from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century—priests’ “official” texts and Indigenous authors’ rendering of them—Mark Z. Christensen traces Maya and Nahua influences, both stylistic and substantive, while documenting how extensively Old World content and meaning were absorbed into Indigenous texts. Visions of world endings and beginnings were not new to the Indigenous cultures of America. Christensen shows how and why certain formulations, such as the Fifteen Signs of Doomsday, found receptive audiences among the Maya and the Aztec, with religious ramifications extending to the present day. These translated texts provide the opportunity to see firsthand the negotiations that ecclesiastics and natives engaged in when composing their eschatological treatises. With their insights into how various ecclesiastics, Nahuas, and Mayas preached, and even understood, Catholicism, they offer a uniquely detailed, deeply informed perspective on the process of forming colonial religion.
Автор: David B. Sachsman, Gregory A. Borchard Название: The Antebellum Press: Setting the Stage for Civil War ISBN: 0367196824 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367196820 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6123.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Antebellum Press: Setting the Stage for Civil War reveals the critical role of journalism in the years leading up to America`s deadliest conflict by exploring the events that foreshadowed and, in some ways, contributed directly to the outbreak of war.
Автор: Harbridge Название: Is Bipartisanship Dead? ISBN: 1107079950 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107079953 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 12355.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Why has voting in Congress become so partisan? Does partisanship in voting indicate that there is no common ground left between American parties? Laurel Harbridge`s findings in Is Bipartisanship Dead? shed light on whether partisan conflict is insurmountable, underscore how political parties manufacture partisan conflict, and speak to questions of representation and governance.
Описание: This study examines how slaves in antebellum Virginia, through physical confrontations with whites, fought to reassert some measure of control over their day-today lives. The author analyzes how while this violence came at a high cost, it also ensured the preservation of their humanity and set limits on their enslavement.
Автор: Fearnley Andrew M. Название: Race Capital?: Harlem as Setting and Symbol ISBN: 0231183232 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231183239 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 3485.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Leading scholars consider crucial aspects of Harlem`s social, political, and intellectual history, its artistic, cultural, and economic life, and its representation across an array of media and genres. Race Capital? models new Harlem scholarship that interrogates exceptionalism while taking seriously the importance of place and locality.
Автор: Green-Pedersen Christoffer Название: Reshaping of West European Party Politics ISBN: 0198842899 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198842897 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 15206.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book focuses on the issue of the agenda of party politics. Studying how political parties come to compete about some issues rather than others allows us to assess the role of new political parties. This book highlights the central role of the parties that have traditionally governed in West European countries.
Автор: I. Porciani; J. Tollebeek Название: Setting the Standards ISBN: 0230500056 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230500051 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 6986.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Institutions, networks and communities "standardized" the historical discipline and profession in the nineteenth and twentieth century, in both the old and the new European nation states. This collection focuses on the growth of the infrastructure of historiography: the archives, journals, biographical dictionaries and the historical museums.
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