Robert Song
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198269335
- eISBN:
- 9780191683619
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198269335.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology, Religion and Society
Liberalism forms the dominant political ideology of the modern world, but despite its pervasive influence, this is the first book-length treatment of liberal political thought from a Christian ...
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Liberalism forms the dominant political ideology of the modern world, but despite its pervasive influence, this is the first book-length treatment of liberal political thought from a Christian theological perspective. The book discusses the different aspects and interpretations of liberalism with reference to the critiques of three 20th-century theologians: the American Protestant Reinhold Niebuhr on the liberal progressivist philosophy of history; the lesser-known Canadian George Grant on the threat of technology to fundamental liberal values, as articulated in the recent work of John Rawls; and the French Thomist Jacques Maritain on the defence of political pluralism. Further to this, The book explores the implications of this political theology for the issues in fundamental constitutional theory raised by a bill of rights and judicial review of legislation, and concludes with an account of the critical but supportive stance of liberalism Christian theology should take.Less
Liberalism forms the dominant political ideology of the modern world, but despite its pervasive influence, this is the first book-length treatment of liberal political thought from a Christian theological perspective. The book discusses the different aspects and interpretations of liberalism with reference to the critiques of three 20th-century theologians: the American Protestant Reinhold Niebuhr on the liberal progressivist philosophy of history; the lesser-known Canadian George Grant on the threat of technology to fundamental liberal values, as articulated in the recent work of John Rawls; and the French Thomist Jacques Maritain on the defence of political pluralism. Further to this, The book explores the implications of this political theology for the issues in fundamental constitutional theory raised by a bill of rights and judicial review of legislation, and concludes with an account of the critical but supportive stance of liberalism Christian theology should take.
BRENT WATERS
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199271962
- eISBN:
- 9780191709883
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199271962.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter initiates the book's constructive task by developing alternative philosophical, theological, and moral themes to those offered by late liberalism. The first section uses Herman ...
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This chapter initiates the book's constructive task by developing alternative philosophical, theological, and moral themes to those offered by late liberalism. The first section uses Herman Dooyeweerd's concept of sphere sovereignty to examine the relation between nature and history as two related spheres of human activity. It is argued, however, that this philosophical concept has severe limitations which must be corrected by employing theological themes. The second section uses the work of Oliver O'Donovan to develop the theological themes of a vindicated created order, relation between providence and eschatology, and dominion and stewardship. The third section, drawing upon the work of George Grant, develops a series of moral themes regarding the family as a form of human association. These themes include the household as a place of timely belonging within the temporal confines of created order, an unfolding and enfolding familial love that orients family members toward broader forms of human association, and the teleological ordering of the familial association toward its destiny in Christ.Less
This chapter initiates the book's constructive task by developing alternative philosophical, theological, and moral themes to those offered by late liberalism. The first section uses Herman Dooyeweerd's concept of sphere sovereignty to examine the relation between nature and history as two related spheres of human activity. It is argued, however, that this philosophical concept has severe limitations which must be corrected by employing theological themes. The second section uses the work of Oliver O'Donovan to develop the theological themes of a vindicated created order, relation between providence and eschatology, and dominion and stewardship. The third section, drawing upon the work of George Grant, develops a series of moral themes regarding the family as a form of human association. These themes include the household as a place of timely belonging within the temporal confines of created order, an unfolding and enfolding familial love that orients family members toward broader forms of human association, and the teleological ordering of the familial association toward its destiny in Christ.
William Bain
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- April 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780199260263
- eISBN:
- 9780191600975
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199260265.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
The idea of trusteeship in international society originates in late 18th century British India. The purpose of this chapter is to examine the emergence of trusteeship as a justification of political ...
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The idea of trusteeship in international society originates in late 18th century British India. The purpose of this chapter is to examine the emergence of trusteeship as a justification of political power in territories administered by the East India Company. The chapter has five sections: From Merchant to Sovereign in British India; The Claim to Rule; The Relations of Ruler and Subject; The Purpose of the Office of Government; and Providing Protection, Directing Improvement.Less
The idea of trusteeship in international society originates in late 18th century British India. The purpose of this chapter is to examine the emergence of trusteeship as a justification of political power in territories administered by the East India Company. The chapter has five sections: From Merchant to Sovereign in British India; The Claim to Rule; The Relations of Ruler and Subject; The Purpose of the Office of Government; and Providing Protection, Directing Improvement.
Steven K. Green
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195399677
- eISBN:
- 9780199777150
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195399677.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity, Religion and Society
This chapter concludes the examination of the school question by tracing the secularization of the concept of nonsectarianism. It discusses the ongoing Protestant-Catholic conflict over Bible reading ...
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This chapter concludes the examination of the school question by tracing the secularization of the concept of nonsectarianism. It discusses the ongoing Protestant-Catholic conflict over Bible reading and parochial school funding, the events surrounding the Blaine Amendment (an attempt to resolve the school question through constitutional amendment), and the subsequent decline in Bible reading in schools in the closing decades of the century. It ends with an examination of the leading Bible reading legal cases to demonstrate how judicial attitudes toward legal secularization had evolved by the end of the nineteenth century.Less
This chapter concludes the examination of the school question by tracing the secularization of the concept of nonsectarianism. It discusses the ongoing Protestant-Catholic conflict over Bible reading and parochial school funding, the events surrounding the Blaine Amendment (an attempt to resolve the school question through constitutional amendment), and the subsequent decline in Bible reading in schools in the closing decades of the century. It ends with an examination of the leading Bible reading legal cases to demonstrate how judicial attitudes toward legal secularization had evolved by the end of the nineteenth century.
Constance Valis Hill
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195390827
- eISBN:
- 9780199863563
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195390827.003.0012
- Subject:
- Music, History, American, Dance
This chapter presents a performance by Ayodele Casel, Chloe Arnold, and Dormeshia Sumbry Edwards—in high-heeled tap shoes—of Jason Samuels Smith’s Charlie’s Angels. In the first decade of the ...
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This chapter presents a performance by Ayodele Casel, Chloe Arnold, and Dormeshia Sumbry Edwards—in high-heeled tap shoes—of Jason Samuels Smith’s Charlie’s Angels. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, tap dance was regarded as a national treasure, celebrated annually on National Tap Dance Day—May 25, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson’s birthday. While tap dancers were acknowledged in all forms of the media, there were scores of talented dancers still hustling, both for gigs and respect; and there was no consistent performance schedule beyond the growing but still small tap festival circuit. Despite tap’s continued segregation from mainstream modern American dance forms, and its ingrained misunderstanding by critics, such productions as Derick Grant’s Imagine Tap! and Savion Glover’s Classical Savion!, along with tap’s international popularity, plethora of talented women in tap, and young talent, placed tap dance as the most cutting-edge dance form on the American stage.Less
This chapter presents a performance by Ayodele Casel, Chloe Arnold, and Dormeshia Sumbry Edwards—in high-heeled tap shoes—of Jason Samuels Smith’s Charlie’s Angels. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, tap dance was regarded as a national treasure, celebrated annually on National Tap Dance Day—May 25, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson’s birthday. While tap dancers were acknowledged in all forms of the media, there were scores of talented dancers still hustling, both for gigs and respect; and there was no consistent performance schedule beyond the growing but still small tap festival circuit. Despite tap’s continued segregation from mainstream modern American dance forms, and its ingrained misunderstanding by critics, such productions as Derick Grant’s Imagine Tap! and Savion Glover’s Classical Savion!, along with tap’s international popularity, plethora of talented women in tap, and young talent, placed tap dance as the most cutting-edge dance form on the American stage.
Rachel M. McCleary
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195371178
- eISBN:
- 9780199870592
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195371178.003.0005
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
The shift from humanitarian relief to development was formally initiated with the “New Directions” legislation of 1973. This chapter discusses the federal government’s use of grants to help domestic ...
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The shift from humanitarian relief to development was formally initiated with the “New Directions” legislation of 1973. This chapter discusses the federal government’s use of grants to help domestic agencies become international and to professionalize the staff of relief agencies so that they could effectively carry out development projects. As the number of agencies grew, their activities became more diversified. As a consequence, many agencies became transnational, focused on an issue rather than a geographic region. Increasingly, PVOs assumed an advocacy role countering U.S. foreign policy on human rights and hunger. This chapter discusses the transnational structure of PVOs as they work on issues across geographic regions. In becoming transnational, the PVOs became accomplished advocates in the political arena.Less
The shift from humanitarian relief to development was formally initiated with the “New Directions” legislation of 1973. This chapter discusses the federal government’s use of grants to help domestic agencies become international and to professionalize the staff of relief agencies so that they could effectively carry out development projects. As the number of agencies grew, their activities became more diversified. As a consequence, many agencies became transnational, focused on an issue rather than a geographic region. Increasingly, PVOs assumed an advocacy role countering U.S. foreign policy on human rights and hunger. This chapter discusses the transnational structure of PVOs as they work on issues across geographic regions. In becoming transnational, the PVOs became accomplished advocates in the political arena.
JEFFREY C. ALEXANDER
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199744466
- eISBN:
- 9780199944163
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199744466.003.0011
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
Just before midnight on the evening of election day, November 4, 2008, in Chicago's Grant Park, Barack Obama acknowledged victory in a speech to the hundred thousand people who gathered to consecrate ...
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Just before midnight on the evening of election day, November 4, 2008, in Chicago's Grant Park, Barack Obama acknowledged victory in a speech to the hundred thousand people who gathered to consecrate this moment. His win had been decisive. Almost 70 million Americans voted for him, whereas John McCain received only 60 million of the ballots cast. The sway of Obama's performance over swing states, as well as independent, moderate, and Republican-leaning voters, allowed Democrats also to gain eight seats in the Senate and twenty-one in the House, paving the way to a supermajority in the U.S. Senate for the first time since 1979. America had elected a civil hero. He was to restore the utopian spirit of the nation's revolutionary origins and the promise of its founding fathers to create a more perfect democracy.Less
Just before midnight on the evening of election day, November 4, 2008, in Chicago's Grant Park, Barack Obama acknowledged victory in a speech to the hundred thousand people who gathered to consecrate this moment. His win had been decisive. Almost 70 million Americans voted for him, whereas John McCain received only 60 million of the ballots cast. The sway of Obama's performance over swing states, as well as independent, moderate, and Republican-leaning voters, allowed Democrats also to gain eight seats in the Senate and twenty-one in the House, paving the way to a supermajority in the U.S. Senate for the first time since 1979. America had elected a civil hero. He was to restore the utopian spirit of the nation's revolutionary origins and the promise of its founding fathers to create a more perfect democracy.
John Y. Simon
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195330854
- eISBN:
- 9780199851393
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195330854.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This chapter describes how the marriage of Ulysses and Julia Grant withstood financial woes, accusations of alcoholism, sectionalism, civil war, and sudden unwanted fame. There were dark days, ...
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This chapter describes how the marriage of Ulysses and Julia Grant withstood financial woes, accusations of alcoholism, sectionalism, civil war, and sudden unwanted fame. There were dark days, particularly during the seven years preceding the Civil War, as Ulysses struggled to support his growing family. However, their devotion to one another was unmistakable. The secession crisis and outbreak of war failed to alter Julia's allegiance to her husband, although she owned slaves and regularly brought them with her to accompany her husband at the front. By assuming new responsibilities for their children and family finances, Julia also provided her husband with a stable domestic relationship that enabled him to function most effectively as a commander. Of the leading figures in the Civil War, Ulysses Grant had the happiest marriage.Less
This chapter describes how the marriage of Ulysses and Julia Grant withstood financial woes, accusations of alcoholism, sectionalism, civil war, and sudden unwanted fame. There were dark days, particularly during the seven years preceding the Civil War, as Ulysses struggled to support his growing family. However, their devotion to one another was unmistakable. The secession crisis and outbreak of war failed to alter Julia's allegiance to her husband, although she owned slaves and regularly brought them with her to accompany her husband at the front. By assuming new responsibilities for their children and family finances, Julia also provided her husband with a stable domestic relationship that enabled him to function most effectively as a commander. Of the leading figures in the Civil War, Ulysses Grant had the happiest marriage.
Bill Jenkins
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781474445788
- eISBN:
- 9781474476515
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474445788.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Scottish Studies
It was long believed that evolutionary theories received an almost universally cold reception in British natural history circles in the first half of the nineteenth century. But recently serious ...
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It was long believed that evolutionary theories received an almost universally cold reception in British natural history circles in the first half of the nineteenth century. But recently serious doubt has been cast on this assumption. This book will be the first major study of what was the most important centre or pre-Darwinian evolutionary thought in the British Isles. It shows that Edinburgh in the late 1820s and early 1830s was witness to a veritable ferment of radical new ideas on the natural world, including speculation on the origin and evolution of life, at just the time when Charles Darwin was studying medicine in the city. Those who were students in Edinburgh at the time could have hardly avoided coming into contact with these new ideas, espoused as they were by many of professors, fellow students and acquaintances in Edinburgh. This book sheds new light on the genesis and development of one of the most important scientific theories in the history of western thought.Less
It was long believed that evolutionary theories received an almost universally cold reception in British natural history circles in the first half of the nineteenth century. But recently serious doubt has been cast on this assumption. This book will be the first major study of what was the most important centre or pre-Darwinian evolutionary thought in the British Isles. It shows that Edinburgh in the late 1820s and early 1830s was witness to a veritable ferment of radical new ideas on the natural world, including speculation on the origin and evolution of life, at just the time when Charles Darwin was studying medicine in the city. Those who were students in Edinburgh at the time could have hardly avoided coming into contact with these new ideas, espoused as they were by many of professors, fellow students and acquaintances in Edinburgh. This book sheds new light on the genesis and development of one of the most important scientific theories in the history of western thought.
Williamson Murray
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199608638
- eISBN:
- 9780191731754
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199608638.003.0010
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Chapter 9 focuses on the relationship between the evolving grand strategy and military strategy in the American Civil War (1861–5). Williamson Murray emphasizes the symbiotic relationship between ...
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Chapter 9 focuses on the relationship between the evolving grand strategy and military strategy in the American Civil War (1861–5). Williamson Murray emphasizes the symbiotic relationship between Abraham Lincoln's grand strategy—aimed at the preservation of the Union with its form of government—and Ulysses S. Grant's ability to execute the military expression of that strategy through effective generalship, selection of capable subordinates, and decisive combat. Murray argues that two main factors explain why it took the North four years to defeat the Southern states. First, the vast size of the theatre of operations posed great logistical challenges. Second, enormous popular enthusiasm for their respective causes led both sides to insist on holding out to the bitter end, despite huge casualties and suffering. Ultimately, Lincoln's grand strategy succeeded because the verdict that ‘the United States is a country’, singular rather than plural, was never seriously challenged again.Less
Chapter 9 focuses on the relationship between the evolving grand strategy and military strategy in the American Civil War (1861–5). Williamson Murray emphasizes the symbiotic relationship between Abraham Lincoln's grand strategy—aimed at the preservation of the Union with its form of government—and Ulysses S. Grant's ability to execute the military expression of that strategy through effective generalship, selection of capable subordinates, and decisive combat. Murray argues that two main factors explain why it took the North four years to defeat the Southern states. First, the vast size of the theatre of operations posed great logistical challenges. Second, enormous popular enthusiasm for their respective causes led both sides to insist on holding out to the bitter end, despite huge casualties and suffering. Ultimately, Lincoln's grand strategy succeeded because the verdict that ‘the United States is a country’, singular rather than plural, was never seriously challenged again.
Christine Rosen
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780195156799
- eISBN:
- 9780199835218
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/019515679X.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter continues the discussion of religious enthusiasts of eugenics by tracing the support the movement garnered from prominent Protestants such as Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis of Plymouth ...
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This chapter continues the discussion of religious enthusiasts of eugenics by tracing the support the movement garnered from prominent Protestants such as Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, who helped eugenics supporters such as Dr. John Harvey Kellogg organize the First and Second National Race Betterment Conferences in 1915 and 1916. At the same time, Reform rabbis such as Max Reichler began to assess the eugenics movement in light of the teachings of the Jewish faith at a time when fears about Jewish and Catholic immigration to the United States were rising; at the same time, a heated debate was occurring among Jews about the benefits and dangers of intermarriage. Finally, this chapter discusses how opponents of immigration, such as eugenicist Madison Grant, were employing eugenic rhetoric to argue that the American “melting pot” could no longer absorb new arrivals.Less
This chapter continues the discussion of religious enthusiasts of eugenics by tracing the support the movement garnered from prominent Protestants such as Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, who helped eugenics supporters such as Dr. John Harvey Kellogg organize the First and Second National Race Betterment Conferences in 1915 and 1916. At the same time, Reform rabbis such as Max Reichler began to assess the eugenics movement in light of the teachings of the Jewish faith at a time when fears about Jewish and Catholic immigration to the United States were rising; at the same time, a heated debate was occurring among Jews about the benefits and dangers of intermarriage. Finally, this chapter discusses how opponents of immigration, such as eugenicist Madison Grant, were employing eugenic rhetoric to argue that the American “melting pot” could no longer absorb new arrivals.
Henry French and Mark Rothery
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199576692
- eISBN:
- 9780191738852
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199576692.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History, Social History
Chapter Three explores the role of the Grand Tour and travel more generally in the formation of elite male identities. It shows how social, political and technological developments changed the ...
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Chapter Three explores the role of the Grand Tour and travel more generally in the formation of elite male identities. It shows how social, political and technological developments changed the destinations of elite travellers between the late seventeenth and late nineteenth centuries, and also how these shifted the function of travel in the formation of elite gender identities through the period. The subjective experiences analysed in this chapter show how the ripples of fashion among young male travellers (about where to go, how to get there, what to see, and what to make of it) related to the under-tow of deeper, less mutable cultural imperatives about the place of travel in the development of social, political and cultural authority, and personal autonomy and self-government. Although travel remained important within elite male experiences, increasing Imperial self-confidence changed its educative function.Less
Chapter Three explores the role of the Grand Tour and travel more generally in the formation of elite male identities. It shows how social, political and technological developments changed the destinations of elite travellers between the late seventeenth and late nineteenth centuries, and also how these shifted the function of travel in the formation of elite gender identities through the period. The subjective experiences analysed in this chapter show how the ripples of fashion among young male travellers (about where to go, how to get there, what to see, and what to make of it) related to the under-tow of deeper, less mutable cultural imperatives about the place of travel in the development of social, political and cultural authority, and personal autonomy and self-government. Although travel remained important within elite male experiences, increasing Imperial self-confidence changed its educative function.
Charles R. Geisst
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195130867
- eISBN:
- 9780199871155
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195130863.003.0003
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Economic History, Financial Economics
Railroad financing through the Civil War, 1840–70. The attraction of railroads as the first major infrastructure investment; scandals involving financiers; major panic following dissolution of Bank ...
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Railroad financing through the Civil War, 1840–70. The attraction of railroads as the first major infrastructure investment; scandals involving financiers; major panic following dissolution of Bank of the U.S.; development of early investment banks; scandals during Civil War including those surrounding U. S. Grant, Jay Gould, and NYSE; raising bonds during Civil War.Less
Railroad financing through the Civil War, 1840–70. The attraction of railroads as the first major infrastructure investment; scandals involving financiers; major panic following dissolution of Bank of the U.S.; development of early investment banks; scandals during Civil War including those surrounding U. S. Grant, Jay Gould, and NYSE; raising bonds during Civil War.
William Marvel
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469628394
- eISBN:
- 9781469628493
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469628394.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: Civil War
This book summarizes the era of the most intense debate over slavery, the Civil War, and the Reconstruction struggle, encapsulating it within the experience of one small Virginia Piedmont community, ...
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This book summarizes the era of the most intense debate over slavery, the Civil War, and the Reconstruction struggle, encapsulating it within the experience of one small Virginia Piedmont community, the name of which came to represent the nexus between the antebellum and postwar worlds. Appomattox County came into existence just as Texas entered the Union, and as the fruits of the Mexican War excited the conflict over expanding slavery into the new territories. As the spot where Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses Grant, Appomattox Court House ultimately represented the close of the war that determined the fate of slavery. The county saw, first-hand, the old plantation aristocracy's efforts to re-impose a semblance of slavery under a veneer of nominal freedom, but the region lost its agricultural dominance and Appomattox Court House became a backwater even within the county. The decline of the famous village was nearly complete when a resurgence of interest in its historical significance brought one final economic opportunity in its transformation into a national monument.Less
This book summarizes the era of the most intense debate over slavery, the Civil War, and the Reconstruction struggle, encapsulating it within the experience of one small Virginia Piedmont community, the name of which came to represent the nexus between the antebellum and postwar worlds. Appomattox County came into existence just as Texas entered the Union, and as the fruits of the Mexican War excited the conflict over expanding slavery into the new territories. As the spot where Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses Grant, Appomattox Court House ultimately represented the close of the war that determined the fate of slavery. The county saw, first-hand, the old plantation aristocracy's efforts to re-impose a semblance of slavery under a veneer of nominal freedom, but the region lost its agricultural dominance and Appomattox Court House became a backwater even within the county. The decline of the famous village was nearly complete when a resurgence of interest in its historical significance brought one final economic opportunity in its transformation into a national monument.
Mark P. Williams
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781628462388
- eISBN:
- 9781626746831
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781628462388.003.0014
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
Mark P. Williams uses the Joker as a vehicle through which to meditate on “the reader’s own relationship with the superhero form, and the superhero form’s relationship with contemporary modernity.” ...
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Mark P. Williams uses the Joker as a vehicle through which to meditate on “the reader’s own relationship with the superhero form, and the superhero form’s relationship with contemporary modernity.” Focusing specifically on the character as he has been realized in the work of Grant Morrison, Williams suggests that the latter’s work performs its “central conflicts through play with the opposing forces of cyclicality and progress” that characterize the superheroic narrative genre itself: “His Batman narratives make the double-bind of subversion-co-option central and the Joker a key player: the Joker teaches Batman how to regain agency against the totalizing backdrop of his endless ultimate enemies.” In Williams’ analysis, “Morrison has developed a theory of Batman-Joker directly analogous to avant-garde praxis: détournement and aesthetic collage of pre-existing elements to create new juxtapositions.”Less
Mark P. Williams uses the Joker as a vehicle through which to meditate on “the reader’s own relationship with the superhero form, and the superhero form’s relationship with contemporary modernity.” Focusing specifically on the character as he has been realized in the work of Grant Morrison, Williams suggests that the latter’s work performs its “central conflicts through play with the opposing forces of cyclicality and progress” that characterize the superheroic narrative genre itself: “His Batman narratives make the double-bind of subversion-co-option central and the Joker a key player: the Joker teaches Batman how to regain agency against the totalizing backdrop of his endless ultimate enemies.” In Williams’ analysis, “Morrison has developed a theory of Batman-Joker directly analogous to avant-garde praxis: détournement and aesthetic collage of pre-existing elements to create new juxtapositions.”
Reid L. Neilson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195384031
- eISBN:
- 9780199918324
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195384031.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
The successes, as well as the failures, at Chicago helped LDS leaders realize the importance of exhibiting their ecclesiastical institution as a culturally advanced society thereafter. Striving for ...
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The successes, as well as the failures, at Chicago helped LDS leaders realize the importance of exhibiting their ecclesiastical institution as a culturally advanced society thereafter. Striving for Utah statehood as well as religious legitimacy, LDS leaders who ventured to the White City in 1893 became convinced of the image-shaping utility of such gatherings. While in Chicago, Mormons sensed the importance, from a public relations perspective, of deemphasizing polarizing spiritual beliefs and practices and instead highlighting their religion's cultural contributions. Rather than stressing the despised LDS theology and reviled cosmology, church members showcased their territory's natural resources, the progressive contributions of their women and young ladies, and the musical prowess of the Tabernacle Choir. From henceforth, Mormons sought to exhibit themselves, rather than be exhibited by others.Less
The successes, as well as the failures, at Chicago helped LDS leaders realize the importance of exhibiting their ecclesiastical institution as a culturally advanced society thereafter. Striving for Utah statehood as well as religious legitimacy, LDS leaders who ventured to the White City in 1893 became convinced of the image-shaping utility of such gatherings. While in Chicago, Mormons sensed the importance, from a public relations perspective, of deemphasizing polarizing spiritual beliefs and practices and instead highlighting their religion's cultural contributions. Rather than stressing the despised LDS theology and reviled cosmology, church members showcased their territory's natural resources, the progressive contributions of their women and young ladies, and the musical prowess of the Tabernacle Choir. From henceforth, Mormons sought to exhibit themselves, rather than be exhibited by others.
Michael Kaufman
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780226550015
- eISBN:
- 9780226550299
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226550299.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
A foundational belief in America—that competitive success in education and career is a ticket to a good life—is not supported by research on happiness, but that research omits crucial considerations. ...
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A foundational belief in America—that competitive success in education and career is a ticket to a good life—is not supported by research on happiness, but that research omits crucial considerations. This book investigates the relationship between success and happiness by leveraging a 46-year mixed-methods follow-up of a study of Harvard undergraduates from the 1960s (called the Harvard Student Study and unrelated to the Grant Study). It pioneers a qualitative and longitudinal approach to the study of happiness, drawing on unparalleled clinical life history interviews and survey data. The book reaches a similar finding to prior happiness research that success beyond meeting basic needs does not deliver happiness, but it goes much further by providing a developmental explanation of what does shapes happiness. Part 1 illustrates a spectrum of well-being visible in participant life histories and trajectories of stability and change over time. Part 2 presents the study’s key innovations in happiness research: a qualitative method for capturing well-being, two models explaining well-being, and a new paradigm linking worldview, well-being, and development. Part 3 significantly alters conventional accounts of adult life offered in human development, personality psychology, and happiness scholarship. The book generates a host of new tools for investigating happiness: an interview method, a procedure for assessing well-being in narrative, a method for displaying well-being in psychobiographical sketches, and constructs useful resources for further study. This book’s findings are supported by research on general samples and apply to varied demographic groups. Psychobiographical sketches illustrate each major concept and finding.Less
A foundational belief in America—that competitive success in education and career is a ticket to a good life—is not supported by research on happiness, but that research omits crucial considerations. This book investigates the relationship between success and happiness by leveraging a 46-year mixed-methods follow-up of a study of Harvard undergraduates from the 1960s (called the Harvard Student Study and unrelated to the Grant Study). It pioneers a qualitative and longitudinal approach to the study of happiness, drawing on unparalleled clinical life history interviews and survey data. The book reaches a similar finding to prior happiness research that success beyond meeting basic needs does not deliver happiness, but it goes much further by providing a developmental explanation of what does shapes happiness. Part 1 illustrates a spectrum of well-being visible in participant life histories and trajectories of stability and change over time. Part 2 presents the study’s key innovations in happiness research: a qualitative method for capturing well-being, two models explaining well-being, and a new paradigm linking worldview, well-being, and development. Part 3 significantly alters conventional accounts of adult life offered in human development, personality psychology, and happiness scholarship. The book generates a host of new tools for investigating happiness: an interview method, a procedure for assessing well-being in narrative, a method for displaying well-being in psychobiographical sketches, and constructs useful resources for further study. This book’s findings are supported by research on general samples and apply to varied demographic groups. Psychobiographical sketches illustrate each major concept and finding.
Ian Small
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198122418
- eISBN:
- 9780191671418
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198122418.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter examines Walter Pater's career during a time when literary critics faced a serious crisis of authority. It evaluates Pater's first book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873) ...
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This chapter examines Walter Pater's career during a time when literary critics faced a serious crisis of authority. It evaluates Pater's first book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873) as well as the criticisms it received. It presents a spectrum of quoted material which in fact comprises a large proportion of the novel's overall content. It notes that Pater's principal intellectual concern was to engage with the concepts of textual and historiographical authority. It discusses how Pater was attempting to undertake the kind of critical enterprise which Grant Allen had insisted on a decade earlier. However, this was no longer possible. In Marius the Epicurean and Plato and Platonism, Pater was trying to write works in which and for which authority existed in the author alone.Less
This chapter examines Walter Pater's career during a time when literary critics faced a serious crisis of authority. It evaluates Pater's first book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873) as well as the criticisms it received. It presents a spectrum of quoted material which in fact comprises a large proportion of the novel's overall content. It notes that Pater's principal intellectual concern was to engage with the concepts of textual and historiographical authority. It discusses how Pater was attempting to undertake the kind of critical enterprise which Grant Allen had insisted on a decade earlier. However, this was no longer possible. In Marius the Epicurean and Plato and Platonism, Pater was trying to write works in which and for which authority existed in the author alone.
Andrew L. Slap
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823227099
- eISBN:
- 9780823234998
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823227099.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Political History
In the Election of 1872 the conflict between President U. S. Grant and Horace Greeley has been typically understood as a battle for the soul of the ruling Republican Party. This book ...
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In the Election of 1872 the conflict between President U. S. Grant and Horace Greeley has been typically understood as a battle for the soul of the ruling Republican Party. This book argues forcefully that the campaign was more than a narrow struggle between Party elites and a class-based radical reform movement. The election, it demonstrates, had broad consequences: in their opposition to widespread Federal corruption, Greeley Republicans unintentionally doomed Reconstruction of any kind, even as they lost the election. Based on close readings of newspapers, party documents, and other primary sources, the book confronts one of the major questions in American political history: How, and why, did Reconstruction come to an end? Its focus on the unintended consequences of liberal republican politics is a provocative contribution to this important debate.Less
In the Election of 1872 the conflict between President U. S. Grant and Horace Greeley has been typically understood as a battle for the soul of the ruling Republican Party. This book argues forcefully that the campaign was more than a narrow struggle between Party elites and a class-based radical reform movement. The election, it demonstrates, had broad consequences: in their opposition to widespread Federal corruption, Greeley Republicans unintentionally doomed Reconstruction of any kind, even as they lost the election. Based on close readings of newspapers, party documents, and other primary sources, the book confronts one of the major questions in American political history: How, and why, did Reconstruction come to an end? Its focus on the unintended consequences of liberal republican politics is a provocative contribution to this important debate.
Anne Stott
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199699391
- eISBN:
- 9780191739132
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199699391.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
Making extensive use of the correspondence of Marianne Sykes and the diary of William Wilberforce, this chapter details the origins of the Clapham Sect between 1790 and 1793. It shows how Wilberforce ...
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Making extensive use of the correspondence of Marianne Sykes and the diary of William Wilberforce, this chapter details the origins of the Clapham Sect between 1790 and 1793. It shows how Wilberforce became ever more closely connected with the Midlands Evangelicals, Thomas Babington and Thomas Gisborne. The abolition bills of 1791 and 1792 are discussed. There is a short analysis of the relationship of Henry Thornton and Marianne Sykes. Wilberforce’s move to Clapham is described and there is a brief discussion of John Venn and Charles Grant. The founding of the Sierra Leone Company and the Clapham sect’s relationships with the Temne ruler, Naimbaba and his son are analysed. This public discussion is interwoven with a study of Wilberforce’s personal life, in particular his reaction to his sister’s marriage.Less
Making extensive use of the correspondence of Marianne Sykes and the diary of William Wilberforce, this chapter details the origins of the Clapham Sect between 1790 and 1793. It shows how Wilberforce became ever more closely connected with the Midlands Evangelicals, Thomas Babington and Thomas Gisborne. The abolition bills of 1791 and 1792 are discussed. There is a short analysis of the relationship of Henry Thornton and Marianne Sykes. Wilberforce’s move to Clapham is described and there is a brief discussion of John Venn and Charles Grant. The founding of the Sierra Leone Company and the Clapham sect’s relationships with the Temne ruler, Naimbaba and his son are analysed. This public discussion is interwoven with a study of Wilberforce’s personal life, in particular his reaction to his sister’s marriage.
