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A Speaking Aristocracy
Author | : Christopher Grasso |
Publsiher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 2012-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807839201 |
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As cultural authority was reconstituted in the Revolutionary era, knowledge reconceived in the age of Enlightenment, and the means of communication radically altered by the proliferation of print, speakers and writers in eighteenth-century America began to describe themselves and their world in new ways. Drawing on hundreds of sermons, essays, speeches, letters, journals, plays, poems, and newspaper articles, Christopher Grasso explores how intellectuals, preachers, and polemicists transformed both the forms and the substance of public discussion in eighteenth-century Connecticut. In New England through the first half of the century, only learned clergymen regularly addressed the public. After midcentury, however, newspapers, essays, and eventually lay orations introduced new rhetorical strategies to persuade or instruct an audience. With the rise of a print culture in the early Republic, the intellectual elite had to compete with other voices and address multiple audiences. By the end of the century, concludes Grasso, public discourse came to be understood not as the words of an authoritative few to the people but rather as a civic conversation of the people.
The 9 9 Percent
Author | : Matthew Stewart |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2022-10-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781982114190 |
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"A trenchant analysis of how the wealthiest 9.9 percent of Americans -- those just below the tip of the wealth pyramid -- have exacerbated the growing inequality in our country and distorted our social values"--
The Andover Review
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 804 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : HARVARD:AH3RNE |
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Aristocracy in Antiquity
Author | : Nick Fisher,Hans Van Wees |
Publsiher | : Classical Press of Wales |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2015-10-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781910589106 |
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The words 'aristocrats', 'aristocracy' and 'aristocratic values' appear in many a study of ancient history and culture. Sometimes these terms are used with a precise meaning. More often they are casual shorthand for 'upper class', 'ruling elite' and 'high standards'. This book brings together 12 new studies by an impressive international cast of specialists. It demonstrates not only that true aristocracies were rare in the ancient world, but also that the modern use of 'aristocracy' in a looser sense is misleading. The word comes with connotations derived from medieval and modern history. Antiquity, it is here argued, was different. An introductory chapter by the editors argues that 'aristocracy' is rarely a helpful concept for the analysis of political struggles, of historical developments or of ideology. The editors call instead for close study of the varied nature of social inequalities and relationships in particular times and places. The following eleven chapters explore and in most cases challenge the common assumption that hereditary 'aristocrats' who derive much of their status, privilege and power from their ancestors are identifiable at most times and places in the ancient world. They question, too, the related notion that deep ideological divisions existed between 'aristocratic values', such as hospitality, generosity and a disdain for commerce or trade, and the norms and ideals of lower or 'middling' classes. They do so by detailed analysis of archaeological and literary evidence for the rise and nature of elites and leisure classes, diverse elite strategies, and political conflicts in a variety of states across the Mediterranean. Chapters deal with archaic and classical Athens, Samos, Aigina and Crete; the Greek 'colonial' settlements such as Sicily; archaic Rome and central Italy; and the Roman empire under the Principate.
The Congregationalism of the Last Three Hundred Years as Seen in Its Literature
Author | : Henry Martyn Dexter |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Autographs |
ISBN | : PSU:000023805989 |
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New Princeton Review
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 764 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : PSU:000066652267 |
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Debating England s Aristocracy in the 1790s
Author | : Amanda Goodrich |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Aristocracy (Social class) |
ISBN | : 0861932757 |
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The 1790s saw a lively `French Revolution Debate' in England, with much space and intellectual energy, in classic texts by men such as Burke and Paine, and ensuing pamphlet literature, devoted characterisations and representations of the aristocracy; yet this is the first full-scale survey of the subject. Dr Goodrich takes a fresh approach to the topic, illustrating the complexities of the bitter battle fought out in such texts between radicals and loyalists, and highlighting the persistent viciousness and vitriol of a radical anti-aristocratic rhetoric. However, she demonstrates that the loyalist response contained the more innovative campaign, bringing out in particular the development of a commercial loyalism which promoted a new model of society with a modern aristocracy and an open elite; what emerges are English defences of aristocracy which are not simply reducible to ideas of an ancien régime or a Gothic institution.
Aspects of Aristocracy
Author | : David Cannadine,Professor of History and Director of the Institute of Historical Research David Cannadine |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300059817 |
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He reconstructs the extraordinary financial history of the dukes of Devonshire, narrates the story of the Cozens-Hardys, a Norfolk family who played a remarkably varied part in the life of their county, and offers a controversial reappraisal of the forebears, lives, work, and personalities of Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West - a portrait, notes Cannadine, of more than a marriage.