Antebellum American Culture: An Interpretive AnthologyPenn State Press, 24.11.1996 г. - 496 страници First published in 1979, this volume offers students and teachers a unique view of American history prior to the Civil War. Distinguished historian David Brion Davis has chosen a diverse array of primary sources that show the actual concerns, hopes, fears, and understandings of ordinary antebellum Americans. He places these sources within a clear interpretive narrative that brings the documents to life and highlights themes that social and cultural historians have brought to our attention in recent years. Beginning with the family and the issue of socialization and influence, the units move on to struggles over access to wealth and power; the plight of "outsiders" in an "open" society; and ideals of progress, perfection, and mission. The reader of this volume hears a great diversity of voices but also grasps the unities that survived even the Civil War. |
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3 | 35 |
A Struggle for Mastery | 48 |
F Lessons on A House Divided | 55 |
Advice on SelfCulture and Sexual Identity | 67 |
Feminist Alternatives | 85 |
B The Discovery of Female Enslavement | 88 |
3 | 253 |
B A ChineseAmerican Protest | 262 |
The Nonfreedom of Free Blacks | 273 |
Though We Are Not Slaves We Are Not Free | 283 |
E Organizing Free Blacks | 293 |
H A Militant Appeal to Slaves | 300 |
An Appeal for Black Skilled Labor | 304 |
5 | 315 |
Divorce | 95 |
The Anxious Spirit of Gain | 105 |
B Speculation and Community | 115 |
2 | 129 |
B The Right of Access Versus the Rights of Landlords | 136 |
The Changing Uses of Law | 145 |
Modifications | 155 |
Transportation and Corporations | 163 |
B Canals and Railroads | 169 |
Corporations and the Public Interest | 179 |
B Democratic Ideology | 187 |
B What Is It That Has Endangered the Union? | 201 |
The Protestant Establishment | 217 |
Assimilation Versus Removal | 231 |
The Indian as an Object of Sympathy and Hate | 247 |
Slave Voices | 322 |
E A Distinct and Rather Dispicable Class | 330 |
G Polarized South Polarized Nation | 340 |
1 | 346 |
Science Machines and Human Progress | 353 |
B A Defense of Mechanism and Technology | 359 |
The Promise of American Protestantism | 379 |
The Temperance Reformation | 393 |
Coercion Replaces Moral Suasion | 407 |
B The Burden of All Reformers | 418 |
E Chattel Slavery Versus Wages Slavery | 432 |
The Completion of Perfection | 447 |
Slavery as the Barrier to Fulfillment | 461 |