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Defining Nationhood in the Early American Republic
Two generations after the founding, Americans still disagreed on the nature of the Union: was it a confederation of sovereign states or a nation headed by a central government? To South Carolina Senator Robert H. Hayne and others of his mindset, only the vigilant protection of states' rights could hold off an attack on the southern way of life, ......
Defining Nationhood in the Early American Republic
Two generations after the founding, Americans still disagreed on the nature of the Union: was it a confederation of sovereign states or a nation headed by a central government? To South Carolina Senator Robert H. Hayne and others of his mindset, only the vigilant protection of states' rights could hold off an attack on the southern way of life, ......
The "conflict thesis"-the idea that an inevitable and irreconcilable conflict exists between science and religion-has long been part of popular imagination. In The Warfare between Science and Religion, Jeff Hardin, Ronald L. Numbers, and Ronald A. Binzley have assembled a group of distinguished historians who explore the ......
A Reference Guide to Historic Sites in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia
The War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain was fought throughout nearly all of the country, from the waters of the Atlantic Ocean to the vast frontier between the U.S. and Canada. No theater of war suffered more than the Chesapeake Bay region where 11 battles -- including Craney Island, Hampton, Bladensburg, and Baltimore -- 63 ......
Conventional scholarship on the Mediterranean portrays the Inner Sea as a timeless entity with unchanging ecological and agrarian features. But, Faruk Tabak argues, some of the 'traditional' and 'olden' characteristics that we attribute to it today are actually products of relatively recent developments. Locating the shifting fortunes of ......
Heiresses, Materialism, and the Novel of Manners from Jane Austen to Henry James
It is a familiar story line in nineteenth-century English novels: a hero must choose between money and love, between the wealthy, materialistic, status-conscious woman who could enhance his social position and the poorer, altruistic, independent-minded woman whom he loves. Elsie B. Michie explains what this common marriage plot reveals about ......
Heiresses, Materialism, and the Novel of Manners from Jane Austen to Henry James
It is a familiar storyline in nineteenth-century English novels: a hero must choose between money and love, between the wealthy, materialistic, status-conscious woman who could enhance his social position and the poorer, altruistic, independent-minded woman whom he loves. Elsie B. Michie explains what this common marriage plot reveals about ......
The story of Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece is one of the oldest and most familiar tales in classical literature. Apollonius of Rhodes wrote the best-known version, in Greek, in the third century B.C.E. The Latin poet Gaius Valerius Flaccus began his own interpretation of the story in the first century of the ......
The Violence of Modernity turns to Charles Baudelaire, oneof the most canonical figures of literary modernism, in orderto reclaim an aesthetic legacy for ethical inquiry and historicalcritique. Works of modern literature are commonlytheorized as symptomatic responses to the trauma of history.In a climate that tends to privilege crisis over ......
