Hugh Rice
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198250289
- eISBN:
- 9780191598302
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198250282.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
Proposes an abstract conception of God, which identifies the will of God with the basic facts about good and bad. I argue that this conception does justice both to the nature of goodness and to the ...
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Proposes an abstract conception of God, which identifies the will of God with the basic facts about good and bad. I argue that this conception does justice both to the nature of goodness and to the sovereignty of God. And, while it is does not represent God as a person, it allows for the attribution to him of properties that form the key elements of many people's conception of God. I argue that a belief in God, so conceived, is a natural extension of ordinary scientific outlook and a belief in objective value. I defend this belief in objective value and claim that it is reasonable to explain the existence of the world in terms of such value. In the latter part of the book, I discuss the problem of evil, and the question of whether there are good reasons for believing in miracles. Finally, I discuss the value of rational belief in God.Less
Proposes an abstract conception of God, which identifies the will of God with the basic facts about good and bad. I argue that this conception does justice both to the nature of goodness and to the sovereignty of God. And, while it is does not represent God as a person, it allows for the attribution to him of properties that form the key elements of many people's conception of God. I argue that a belief in God, so conceived, is a natural extension of ordinary scientific outlook and a belief in objective value. I defend this belief in objective value and claim that it is reasonable to explain the existence of the world in terms of such value. In the latter part of the book, I discuss the problem of evil, and the question of whether there are good reasons for believing in miracles. Finally, I discuss the value of rational belief in God.
Daniel K. Williams
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195340846
- eISBN:
- 9780199867141
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195340846.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
While most evangelicals supported Eisenhower’s centrist conservatism and moderate position on civil rights, self-identified fundamentalists, including Bob Jones, Jr., Billy James Hargis, Carl ...
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While most evangelicals supported Eisenhower’s centrist conservatism and moderate position on civil rights, self-identified fundamentalists, including Bob Jones, Jr., Billy James Hargis, Carl McIntire, John R. Rice, and Jerry Falwell, supported the more radical positions of the “far right.” Like Billy Graham, they were strongly anticommunist, but unlike Graham, they defended racial segregation and denounced the early civil rights movement. This chapter traces the emergence of a fundamentalist political program that operated alongside the more mainstream evangelical politics of the 1950s. The chapter argues that fundamentalists’ support for racial segregation, a position that was unpopular with many northern evangelicals, prevented them from attaining national political influence during the 1950s. Nevertheless, fundamentalists’ political activities during this decade shaped the political consciousness of many pastors, including Falwell, who would later become Religious Right leaders.Less
While most evangelicals supported Eisenhower’s centrist conservatism and moderate position on civil rights, self-identified fundamentalists, including Bob Jones, Jr., Billy James Hargis, Carl McIntire, John R. Rice, and Jerry Falwell, supported the more radical positions of the “far right.” Like Billy Graham, they were strongly anticommunist, but unlike Graham, they defended racial segregation and denounced the early civil rights movement. This chapter traces the emergence of a fundamentalist political program that operated alongside the more mainstream evangelical politics of the 1950s. The chapter argues that fundamentalists’ support for racial segregation, a position that was unpopular with many northern evangelicals, prevented them from attaining national political influence during the 1950s. Nevertheless, fundamentalists’ political activities during this decade shaped the political consciousness of many pastors, including Falwell, who would later become Religious Right leaders.
Mark A. Noll
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195151114
- eISBN:
- 9780199834532
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195151119.003.0019
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
Central to the slavery debate was the issue of how to use the Scripture. Three major positions emerged on the Bible and slavery. Theological conservatives usually defended a literal reading of the ...
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Central to the slavery debate was the issue of how to use the Scripture. Three major positions emerged on the Bible and slavery. Theological conservatives usually defended a literal reading of the Scripture, which was held to provide a divine sanction for slavery. Radicals who wanted to abolish slavery sometimes agreed that the Bible sanctioned slavery, but that acknowledgment led them to disparage the Bible. In the middle were a distraught contingent of Bible readers who were troubled by their conclusion that the Bible sanctioned slavery, and who failed unsuccessfully in trying to combine faithfulness to Scripture and opposition to slavery. All factions, but especially the middle group, were constrained in their understanding of the Bible by the confluence (distinct to America) between traditional Christianity and commonsense republican principles.Less
Central to the slavery debate was the issue of how to use the Scripture. Three major positions emerged on the Bible and slavery. Theological conservatives usually defended a literal reading of the Scripture, which was held to provide a divine sanction for slavery. Radicals who wanted to abolish slavery sometimes agreed that the Bible sanctioned slavery, but that acknowledgment led them to disparage the Bible. In the middle were a distraught contingent of Bible readers who were troubled by their conclusion that the Bible sanctioned slavery, and who failed unsuccessfully in trying to combine faithfulness to Scripture and opposition to slavery. All factions, but especially the middle group, were constrained in their understanding of the Bible by the confluence (distinct to America) between traditional Christianity and commonsense republican principles.
Sean M. Kelley
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469627687
- eISBN:
- 9781469627700
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469627687.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
From late 1754 to early 1755, the slave ship Hare completed a journey from Newport, Rhode Island, to Sierra Leone, and back to the United States—a journey which transformed over seventy Africans into ...
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From late 1754 to early 1755, the slave ship Hare completed a journey from Newport, Rhode Island, to Sierra Leone, and back to the United States—a journey which transformed over seventy Africans into commodities, condemning several of them to death and the rest to a life of bondage in North America. In this detailed narrative, the book reconstructs this tumultuous voyage, covering everything from the significance of slave trading to the New England economy and the identities of the captain and crew, to their encounters with inclement weather, slave dealers, and near mutiny. But most important, the book tracks the cohort of slaves aboard the Hare from their purchase in Africa to the rice and indigo plantations of colonial South Carolina. In tracing their complete journey, the book provides rare and detailed insight into the communal lives of slaves, and sheds new light on the African diaspora and its influence on the formation of African-American culture. The Hare captives’ story underscores the extent to which the African Diaspora was a highly structured, rather than culturally “randomizing” process, resulting in communities of Africans of common linguistic and cultural background living in close proximity to one another in the New World. Rather than living in isolation, the Hare captives were part of a large community of people of Mande background that left an indelible cultural stamp on the eighteenth-century Carolina Low Country.Less
From late 1754 to early 1755, the slave ship Hare completed a journey from Newport, Rhode Island, to Sierra Leone, and back to the United States—a journey which transformed over seventy Africans into commodities, condemning several of them to death and the rest to a life of bondage in North America. In this detailed narrative, the book reconstructs this tumultuous voyage, covering everything from the significance of slave trading to the New England economy and the identities of the captain and crew, to their encounters with inclement weather, slave dealers, and near mutiny. But most important, the book tracks the cohort of slaves aboard the Hare from their purchase in Africa to the rice and indigo plantations of colonial South Carolina. In tracing their complete journey, the book provides rare and detailed insight into the communal lives of slaves, and sheds new light on the African diaspora and its influence on the formation of African-American culture. The Hare captives’ story underscores the extent to which the African Diaspora was a highly structured, rather than culturally “randomizing” process, resulting in communities of Africans of common linguistic and cultural background living in close proximity to one another in the New World. Rather than living in isolation, the Hare captives were part of a large community of people of Mande background that left an indelible cultural stamp on the eighteenth-century Carolina Low Country.
Kumaraswamy Velupillai
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198295273
- eISBN:
- 9780191596988
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198295278.003.0006
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Macro- and Monetary Economics
Learning rational expectations equilibria in an overlapping generations model is given a recursion theoretic formalization and the results of the previous chapter are applied. More specifically, it ...
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Learning rational expectations equilibria in an overlapping generations model is given a recursion theoretic formalization and the results of the previous chapter are applied. More specifically, it is shown that such a formalization leads to a direct interpretation in terms of Gold's learning paradigm, described in Ch. 5. Furthermore, the model is also given a computable analytic formalization and relevant computability results obtained.Less
Learning rational expectations equilibria in an overlapping generations model is given a recursion theoretic formalization and the results of the previous chapter are applied. More specifically, it is shown that such a formalization leads to a direct interpretation in terms of Gold's learning paradigm, described in Ch. 5. Furthermore, the model is also given a computable analytic formalization and relevant computability results obtained.
George Rupp
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780231174282
- eISBN:
- 9780231539869
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231174282.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
Education surely has a crucial role to play in preparing the next generation for participation in inclusive communities, but to contribute to performing that role, universities must grapple with ...
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Education surely has a crucial role to play in preparing the next generation for participation in inclusive communities, but to contribute to performing that role, universities must grapple with major challenges to their viability.Less
Education surely has a crucial role to play in preparing the next generation for participation in inclusive communities, but to contribute to performing that role, universities must grapple with major challenges to their viability.
CHUSHICHI TSUZUKI
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198205890
- eISBN:
- 9780191676840
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198205890.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History, Political History
This chapter provides a discussion on Taisho politics and society. It starts by presenting the second phase of Taisho democracy. It also describes the Rice Riots. The riots were not a ‘failed ...
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This chapter provides a discussion on Taisho politics and society. It starts by presenting the second phase of Taisho democracy. It also describes the Rice Riots. The riots were not a ‘failed revolution’ as some historians have suggested, but ‘a Jacquerie of enormous scale’ on the part of people of the lower order in urban areas where narikin (nouveau-riche) and the poor lived side by side. One major result of the Rice Riots was the creation of permanent government control for distributing rice, developed in response to numerous petitions demanding self-sufficiency in food supply and the government regulation of rice prices. The chapter examines the Siberian intervention during 1918–22, the assassination of a prime minister, and universal male suffrage (adopted in 1925). Next, it explores Taisho liberalism in literature, Osugi Sakae and the White Terror of 1923, strikers, co-operators, levellers, the Public Order Preservation Act of 1925, and Kawakami Hajime and Japanese Marxism.Less
This chapter provides a discussion on Taisho politics and society. It starts by presenting the second phase of Taisho democracy. It also describes the Rice Riots. The riots were not a ‘failed revolution’ as some historians have suggested, but ‘a Jacquerie of enormous scale’ on the part of people of the lower order in urban areas where narikin (nouveau-riche) and the poor lived side by side. One major result of the Rice Riots was the creation of permanent government control for distributing rice, developed in response to numerous petitions demanding self-sufficiency in food supply and the government regulation of rice prices. The chapter examines the Siberian intervention during 1918–22, the assassination of a prime minister, and universal male suffrage (adopted in 1925). Next, it explores Taisho liberalism in literature, Osugi Sakae and the White Terror of 1923, strikers, co-operators, levellers, the Public Order Preservation Act of 1925, and Kawakami Hajime and Japanese Marxism.
David W. McIvor
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781501704956
- eISBN:
- 9781501706189
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501704956.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
Recent years have brought public mourning to the heart of American politics, as exemplified by the spread and power of the Black Lives Matter movement, which has gained force through its ...
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Recent years have brought public mourning to the heart of American politics, as exemplified by the spread and power of the Black Lives Matter movement, which has gained force through its identification of pervasive social injustices with individual losses. The deaths of Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, and so many others have brought private grief into the public sphere. The rhetoric and iconography of mourning has been noteworthy in Black Lives Matter protests, but this text argues that we have paid too little attention to the nature of social mourning—its relationship to private grief, its practices, and its pathologies and democratic possibilities. The book addresses significant and urgent questions about how citizens can mourn traumatic events and enduring injustices in their communities. The book offers a framework for analyzing the politics of mourning, drawing from psychoanalysis, Greek tragedy, and scholarly discourses on truth and reconciliation. This book connects these literatures to ongoing activism surrounding racial injustice, and it contextualizes Black Lives Matter in the broader politics of grief and recognition. The text also examines recent, grassroots-organized truth and reconciliation processes such as the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2004–006), which provided a public examination of the Greensboro Massacre of 1979—a deadly incident involving local members of the Communist Workers Party and the Ku Klux Klan.Less
Recent years have brought public mourning to the heart of American politics, as exemplified by the spread and power of the Black Lives Matter movement, which has gained force through its identification of pervasive social injustices with individual losses. The deaths of Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, and so many others have brought private grief into the public sphere. The rhetoric and iconography of mourning has been noteworthy in Black Lives Matter protests, but this text argues that we have paid too little attention to the nature of social mourning—its relationship to private grief, its practices, and its pathologies and democratic possibilities. The book addresses significant and urgent questions about how citizens can mourn traumatic events and enduring injustices in their communities. The book offers a framework for analyzing the politics of mourning, drawing from psychoanalysis, Greek tragedy, and scholarly discourses on truth and reconciliation. This book connects these literatures to ongoing activism surrounding racial injustice, and it contextualizes Black Lives Matter in the broader politics of grief and recognition. The text also examines recent, grassroots-organized truth and reconciliation processes such as the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2004–006), which provided a public examination of the Greensboro Massacre of 1979—a deadly incident involving local members of the Communist Workers Party and the Ku Klux Klan.
Paul C. Gutjahr
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199740420
- eISBN:
- 9780199894703
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199740420.003.0015
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
Chapter Fifteen offers an overview of the influence of the ideology of democracy on American Protestantism. American theology began to change in the early nineteenth century as Americans increasingly ...
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Chapter Fifteen offers an overview of the influence of the ideology of democracy on American Protestantism. American theology began to change in the early nineteenth century as Americans increasingly believed in an egalitarian ethic. Princeton Seminary remained firmly committed to a high sense of God’s sovereignty and the implications that had for a hierarchical church governance structure.Less
Chapter Fifteen offers an overview of the influence of the ideology of democracy on American Protestantism. American theology began to change in the early nineteenth century as Americans increasingly believed in an egalitarian ethic. Princeton Seminary remained firmly committed to a high sense of God’s sovereignty and the implications that had for a hierarchical church governance structure.
Angus Ritchie
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199652518
- eISBN:
- 9780191745850
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199652518.003.0009
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
This chapter considers the axiarchic account advanced by John Leslie and Hugh Rice. Against axiarchism, it argues that the goodness of a state of affairs is something that cries out for an ...
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This chapter considers the axiarchic account advanced by John Leslie and Hugh Rice. Against axiarchism, it argues that the goodness of a state of affairs is something that cries out for an explanation, rather than being something which can be invoked as the explanation. The chapter then evaluates non-axiarchic Neoplatonism — in which a non-personal power is postulated as the cause of good states of affairs. It argues that such a view would close the ‘explanatory gap’ described in Chapter 2, but not in as satisfying a way as theism.Less
This chapter considers the axiarchic account advanced by John Leslie and Hugh Rice. Against axiarchism, it argues that the goodness of a state of affairs is something that cries out for an explanation, rather than being something which can be invoked as the explanation. The chapter then evaluates non-axiarchic Neoplatonism — in which a non-personal power is postulated as the cause of good states of affairs. It argues that such a view would close the ‘explanatory gap’ described in Chapter 2, but not in as satisfying a way as theism.
Harsh V. Pant
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198073963
- eISBN:
- 9780199080809
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198073963.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, Indian Politics
In addition to factors at the structural and domestic political level, several personalities played key roles in the negotiations that made the nuclear pact between India and the United States a ...
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In addition to factors at the structural and domestic political level, several personalities played key roles in the negotiations that made the nuclear pact between India and the United States a reality. US President George W. Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh led the way. Bush had the support of Condoleezza Rice, his Secretary of State; R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and Bush's foreign policy advisor in the 2000 presidential campaign; and former US Ambassador to India, Robert D. Blackwill, and his advisor, Ashley J. Tellis. On India's part, important figures included Sonia Gandhi, head of India's ruling Congress party; former External Affairs Minister, Pranab Mukherjee; former National Security Advisor, M.K. Narayanan; and the Prime Minister's Special Envoy, Shyam Saran.Less
In addition to factors at the structural and domestic political level, several personalities played key roles in the negotiations that made the nuclear pact between India and the United States a reality. US President George W. Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh led the way. Bush had the support of Condoleezza Rice, his Secretary of State; R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and Bush's foreign policy advisor in the 2000 presidential campaign; and former US Ambassador to India, Robert D. Blackwill, and his advisor, Ashley J. Tellis. On India's part, important figures included Sonia Gandhi, head of India's ruling Congress party; former External Affairs Minister, Pranab Mukherjee; former National Security Advisor, M.K. Narayanan; and the Prime Minister's Special Envoy, Shyam Saran.
E. R. DOBBS
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780198506409
- eISBN:
- 9780191709463
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198506409.003.0004
- Subject:
- Physics, Condensed Matter Physics / Materials
This chapter first outlines Fermi liquid theory for the transport coefficients of viscosity, η, thermal conductivity λ, and spin diffusion D. It then shows how far various approximations in the ...
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This chapter first outlines Fermi liquid theory for the transport coefficients of viscosity, η, thermal conductivity λ, and spin diffusion D. It then shows how far various approximations in the theory can lead to reasonable predictions of experimental results. The Leggett–Rice effect and studies of the spin-lattice relaxation time T1 are also considered.Less
This chapter first outlines Fermi liquid theory for the transport coefficients of viscosity, η, thermal conductivity λ, and spin diffusion D. It then shows how far various approximations in the theory can lead to reasonable predictions of experimental results. The Leggett–Rice effect and studies of the spin-lattice relaxation time T1 are also considered.
Robert Markley
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780252042751
- eISBN:
- 9780252051616
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252042751.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
Robinson’s alternative histories explore the collective project of remaking history as a moral, political, and spiritual imperative. “The Lucky Strike” (1984) and “A Sensitive Dependence on Initial ...
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Robinson’s alternative histories explore the collective project of remaking history as a moral, political, and spiritual imperative. “The Lucky Strike” (1984) and “A Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions” (1991) reimagine the moral and ethical implications of the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. In The Years of Rice and Salt Robinson rewrites the bedrock values and assumptions of modernity without the Christian West: the Black Death in the 1350s wipes out Europe’s population, and the Islamic Middle East and China become dominant world powers. By recasting ideas of utopia in the Buddhist idiom of reincarnation, the novel frames the quest for social and economic justice as a form of spiritual progress. Shaman centers on life for a small band of hunter-gatherers in what is now Southern France during an ice age thirty-five thousand years ago. In exploring the lives of the Chauvet cave-painters, the novel emphasizes the complexity of this socio-climatological world, defined by the pack’s complex relationships to the animals its shaman-artists depict.Less
Robinson’s alternative histories explore the collective project of remaking history as a moral, political, and spiritual imperative. “The Lucky Strike” (1984) and “A Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions” (1991) reimagine the moral and ethical implications of the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. In The Years of Rice and Salt Robinson rewrites the bedrock values and assumptions of modernity without the Christian West: the Black Death in the 1350s wipes out Europe’s population, and the Islamic Middle East and China become dominant world powers. By recasting ideas of utopia in the Buddhist idiom of reincarnation, the novel frames the quest for social and economic justice as a form of spiritual progress. Shaman centers on life for a small band of hunter-gatherers in what is now Southern France during an ice age thirty-five thousand years ago. In exploring the lives of the Chauvet cave-painters, the novel emphasizes the complexity of this socio-climatological world, defined by the pack’s complex relationships to the animals its shaman-artists depict.
Noeleen McIlvenna
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469624037
- eISBN:
- 9781469624051
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469624037.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
James Habersham worked with South Carolina planters such as Jonathan Bryan to grant huge landholdings to themselves and other planters, so the rice economy would take off in Georgia. The work and ...
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James Habersham worked with South Carolina planters such as Jonathan Bryan to grant huge landholdings to themselves and other planters, so the rice economy would take off in Georgia. The work and living conditions of both slaves and poor white settlers in the 1750s after the introduction of slavery are described. A comparison is made with the residents of Purrysburg, South Carolina, settled at the same time and where slavery was legal, showing that slavery enriched a very few. The chapter then asks the reader to consider whether Georgia might have followed the path of Pennsylvania.Less
James Habersham worked with South Carolina planters such as Jonathan Bryan to grant huge landholdings to themselves and other planters, so the rice economy would take off in Georgia. The work and living conditions of both slaves and poor white settlers in the 1750s after the introduction of slavery are described. A comparison is made with the residents of Purrysburg, South Carolina, settled at the same time and where slavery was legal, showing that slavery enriched a very few. The chapter then asks the reader to consider whether Georgia might have followed the path of Pennsylvania.
Watson Jennison
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813134260
- eISBN:
- 9780813135984
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813134260.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This book explores the centrality of race in the development of Georgia, from its founding in 1733 until the eve of the Civil War. During that time, Georgia's racial order shifted from a more fluid ...
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This book explores the centrality of race in the development of Georgia, from its founding in 1733 until the eve of the Civil War. During that time, Georgia's racial order shifted from a more fluid conception of race prevalent in the colonial era to a more harsh understanding of racial difference in the antebellum era. This study argues that long-term structural and demographic changes accounted for this transformation. This book traces the rise of rice cultivation and the plantation complex in lowcountry Georgia in the mid-eighteenth century and charts the spread of slavery into the backcountry in the decades that followed. The growth of the white population in the interior of Georgia after the Revolution repositioned the demographic, economic, and political center of the state. The expulsion of the Creek and Cherokee Indians and subsequent settling of Georgia's black belt gave whites in the upcountry an increasingly influential voice in the state's political affairs, including matters related to slavery and race. The attendant emergence of the cotton kingdom fundamentally re-ordered relations between and among blacks, whites, and Indians. The result was the creation of a racially bifurcated society that stood in marked contrast to the racial order that characterized life in early Georgia.Less
This book explores the centrality of race in the development of Georgia, from its founding in 1733 until the eve of the Civil War. During that time, Georgia's racial order shifted from a more fluid conception of race prevalent in the colonial era to a more harsh understanding of racial difference in the antebellum era. This study argues that long-term structural and demographic changes accounted for this transformation. This book traces the rise of rice cultivation and the plantation complex in lowcountry Georgia in the mid-eighteenth century and charts the spread of slavery into the backcountry in the decades that followed. The growth of the white population in the interior of Georgia after the Revolution repositioned the demographic, economic, and political center of the state. The expulsion of the Creek and Cherokee Indians and subsequent settling of Georgia's black belt gave whites in the upcountry an increasingly influential voice in the state's political affairs, including matters related to slavery and race. The attendant emergence of the cotton kingdom fundamentally re-ordered relations between and among blacks, whites, and Indians. The result was the creation of a racially bifurcated society that stood in marked contrast to the racial order that characterized life in early Georgia.
Kevin A. Morrison
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781789620351
- eISBN:
- 9781789623901
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781789620351.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
In the 1880s and 1890s Walter Besant was one of Britain’s most lionized living novelists. Today he is one of the least read Victorian fiction writers of comparable standing. In addition to outlining ...
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In the 1880s and 1890s Walter Besant was one of Britain’s most lionized living novelists. Today he is one of the least read Victorian fiction writers of comparable standing. In addition to outlining the contents of this volume, the introduction provides an overview of Besant’s life and career.Less
In the 1880s and 1890s Walter Besant was one of Britain’s most lionized living novelists. Today he is one of the least read Victorian fiction writers of comparable standing. In addition to outlining the contents of this volume, the introduction provides an overview of Besant’s life and career.
Kirsty Bunting
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781789620351
- eISBN:
- 9781789623901
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781789620351.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
At the heart of this chapter is the assertion that it is impossible to understand the full complexity of the nineteenth-century literary tradition without acknowledging that as the result of the ...
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At the heart of this chapter is the assertion that it is impossible to understand the full complexity of the nineteenth-century literary tradition without acknowledging that as the result of the expansion of the marketplace and the proliferation of collaborative modes of writing, the mid-to-late nineteenth century underwent a re-evaluation of the inherited Romantic constructs of authorship. It examines Walter Besant’s role as a central figure in this re-evaluation through his extended examinations of, and experiments with, collaborative authority, and the status of the author in general. This chapter discusses Walter Besant’s treatments of the topic of literary collaboration with close reference to his public commentary in the press and in his life-writing which expose and examine cultural—and some of Besant’s own—anxieties circulating at the fin de siècle about the perceived negative and disruptive effects of reading collaboratively written works. This chapter unpacks Besant’s ‘spousal’ collaborative model and situates Besant’s attitudes to literary collaboration against its marketplace contexts generally, examining how they compare with other contemporaneous literary and journalistic commentators’ treatments of shared writing across genres.Less
At the heart of this chapter is the assertion that it is impossible to understand the full complexity of the nineteenth-century literary tradition without acknowledging that as the result of the expansion of the marketplace and the proliferation of collaborative modes of writing, the mid-to-late nineteenth century underwent a re-evaluation of the inherited Romantic constructs of authorship. It examines Walter Besant’s role as a central figure in this re-evaluation through his extended examinations of, and experiments with, collaborative authority, and the status of the author in general. This chapter discusses Walter Besant’s treatments of the topic of literary collaboration with close reference to his public commentary in the press and in his life-writing which expose and examine cultural—and some of Besant’s own—anxieties circulating at the fin de siècle about the perceived negative and disruptive effects of reading collaboratively written works. This chapter unpacks Besant’s ‘spousal’ collaborative model and situates Besant’s attitudes to literary collaboration against its marketplace contexts generally, examining how they compare with other contemporaneous literary and journalistic commentators’ treatments of shared writing across genres.
Richard Storer
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781789620351
- eISBN:
- 9781789623901
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781789620351.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
During the first ten years of his career as a novelist Walter Besant wrote fiction collaboratively with James Rice, in an unusual partnership that only ended with Rice’s death in 1882. This essay ...
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During the first ten years of his career as a novelist Walter Besant wrote fiction collaboratively with James Rice, in an unusual partnership that only ended with Rice’s death in 1882. This essay examines the nine Besant and Rice novels and what is known about the partnership that produced them, including what is suggested by the intriguing portrait of the two authors painted around the time of Rice’s death. The Besant and Rice novels are often regarded as insignificant compared to Besant’s later solo work, but this essay argues that they should be considered as integral to Besant’s oeuvre and as essential for understanding of the key themes of his later work, such as social reform and authorship.Less
During the first ten years of his career as a novelist Walter Besant wrote fiction collaboratively with James Rice, in an unusual partnership that only ended with Rice’s death in 1882. This essay examines the nine Besant and Rice novels and what is known about the partnership that produced them, including what is suggested by the intriguing portrait of the two authors painted around the time of Rice’s death. The Besant and Rice novels are often regarded as insignificant compared to Besant’s later solo work, but this essay argues that they should be considered as integral to Besant’s oeuvre and as essential for understanding of the key themes of his later work, such as social reform and authorship.
Deirdre Coleman
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781786940537
- eISBN:
- 9781789629132
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781786940537.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Imperialism and Colonialism
Chapter 1 explores how the natural history discourses of taxonomy and classification are linked to the discourses of human improvement, social rank, and order. Smeathman’s early years in Scarborough ...
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Chapter 1 explores how the natural history discourses of taxonomy and classification are linked to the discourses of human improvement, social rank, and order. Smeathman’s early years in Scarborough are recounted, together with his entry into the world of gentlemen collectors in London, presided over by Dru Drury. The uncertain meaning and status of natural history is discussed by way of the collectors’ rivalry and the many satires of Banks. Did science legitimize empire, or was it the other way around? And what is the link between collecting and territorial conquest? Finally, the popularity of travel books meant that Smeathman must protect his chief investment—the narrative of his tropical adventures.Less
Chapter 1 explores how the natural history discourses of taxonomy and classification are linked to the discourses of human improvement, social rank, and order. Smeathman’s early years in Scarborough are recounted, together with his entry into the world of gentlemen collectors in London, presided over by Dru Drury. The uncertain meaning and status of natural history is discussed by way of the collectors’ rivalry and the many satires of Banks. Did science legitimize empire, or was it the other way around? And what is the link between collecting and territorial conquest? Finally, the popularity of travel books meant that Smeathman must protect his chief investment—the narrative of his tropical adventures.
Ann Brooks
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781447330639
- eISBN:
- 9781447341383
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447330639.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This chapter assesses three high-profile women public intellectuals in the US: Condoleezza Rice, Samantha Power, and Susan Rice. All of these three women public intellectuals are significant role ...
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This chapter assesses three high-profile women public intellectuals in the US: Condoleezza Rice, Samantha Power, and Susan Rice. All of these three women public intellectuals are significant role models for women wanting to move from academic positions into different administrations. While the contribution and legacy of Condoleezza Rice is a mixed one, no one can detract from her contribution and achievements as an African-American academic woman and public intellectual. Condoleezza Rice can take credit for a number of policy successes, including the restoration of full diplomatic relations with Libya and progress in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Meanwhile, one of the most interesting aspects of Power's career is the contrast between her ardour as an activist and her duties as an adviser. Finally, Susan Rice was highly effective in her role as national security adviser and oversaw the coordination of intelligence and military efforts during a period that was marked by an escalation of the battle against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in the Middle East, the crisis in Syria, and increased aggression from Russia.Less
This chapter assesses three high-profile women public intellectuals in the US: Condoleezza Rice, Samantha Power, and Susan Rice. All of these three women public intellectuals are significant role models for women wanting to move from academic positions into different administrations. While the contribution and legacy of Condoleezza Rice is a mixed one, no one can detract from her contribution and achievements as an African-American academic woman and public intellectual. Condoleezza Rice can take credit for a number of policy successes, including the restoration of full diplomatic relations with Libya and progress in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Meanwhile, one of the most interesting aspects of Power's career is the contrast between her ardour as an activist and her duties as an adviser. Finally, Susan Rice was highly effective in her role as national security adviser and oversaw the coordination of intelligence and military efforts during a period that was marked by an escalation of the battle against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in the Middle East, the crisis in Syria, and increased aggression from Russia.
