Author: Barbara E. Lacey
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 0874139619
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This examination of illustrations in early American books, pamphlets, magazines, almanacs, and broadsides provides a new perspective on the social, cultural, and political environment of the late colonial period and the early republic. American printers and engravers drew upon a rich tradition of Christian visual imagery. Used first to inculcate Protestant doctrines, regional symbolism later served to promote reverence for the new republic. The chapters are devoted to momento mori imagery, children's readers, visionary literature, and illustrated Bibles. One chapter shows the demonization of the Indians even as the Indian was being adopted as a symbol of America. Other chapters deal with propaganda for the American Revolution, canonization of leaders, secularized roles for women, and socialization of sites in the new nation.Throughout, analysis of image and text shows how the religious and the secular contrasted, coexisted, and intermingled in eighteenth-century American illustrated imprints. Barbara E. Lacey is a Professor of history at St. Joseph College. It includes more than 110 illustrations.
Author: Ruth H. Bloch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1988-02-26
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780521357647
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book sheds light on the role of religion in the American Revolution and surveys an important facet of the intellectual history of the early Republic.
Author: Charles Lemuel Nichols
Publisher:
Published: 1912
Total Pages: 186
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jack D. Warren
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2023-10-03
Total Pages: 487
ISBN-13: 1493071718
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Published under the auspices of the American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati, Freedom: The Enduring Importance of the American Revolution is a narrative history of the War for Independence. It tells the pivotal story of the courageous men and women who risked their lives to create a new nation based on the idea that government should serve people and protect their freedom. Written for Americans intent on understanding our national origins, but also appropriate for teachers and secondary classrooms, Freedom argues that the American Revolution is the central event in our history: the turning point between our colonial origins and our national experience. This volume includes 167 full-color paintings, maps, illustrations, and photos—many of them seen only in historical institutions across the country! The Freedom narrative spans from the American Revolution’s origins in the nature of colonial British America—a society in which freedom was limited and in which everyone was the subject of a distant monarch—through the crisis in the British Empire that followed the French and Indian War, to the events of the War for Independence itself, and ultimately to the creation of the first great republic in modern history. This is the story of how Americans came to fight for their freedom and became a united people, with a shared history and national identity, and how a generation of founders expressed ideals of liberty, equality, natural and civil rights, and responsible citizenship: ideals that have shaped our history and will shape our future—and the future of the world.
Author: Benjamin L. Carp
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 0195378555
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Looking at the physical environments of cities as political catalysts, Carp contends that what began as interaction, negotiation, conflict, and compromise in churches, taverns, wharves, and city streets developed into a wider political awareness and collaborative political action.
Author: William Huntting Howell
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2015-04-15
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0812247035
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tracing continuities between literature, material culture, and pedagogical theory, William Huntting Howell uncovers an America that celebrated the virtues of humility, contingency, and connection to a complex whole over ambition, individuality, and distinction.