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Author : Ronald Forrest Reid
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)
Download or read book The American Revolution and the Rhetoric of History written by Ronald Forrest Reid and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald Weber
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)
Download or read book Rhetoric and History in Revolutionary New England written by Donald Weber and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on recent work in ritual studies and the history of the sermon in colonial America, Weber recreates the mental worlds of five individual ministers, dramatizing the rhetorical struggle of the clergy to make sense of the social and political upheaval around them.
Author : Gordon S. Wood
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Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)
Download or read book Rhetoric and Reality in the American Revolution written by Gordon S. Wood and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. Bradley Thompson
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1641770678
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)
Download or read book America's Revolutionary Mind written by C. Bradley Thompson and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's Revolutionary Mind is the first major reinterpretation of the American Revolution since the publication of Bernard Bailyn's The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and Gordon S. Wood's The Creation of the American Republic. The purpose of this book is twofold: first, to elucidate the logic, principles, and significance of the Declaration of Independence as the embodiment of the American mind; and, second, to shed light on what John Adams once called the "real American Revolution"; that is, the moral revolution that occurred in the minds of the people in the fifteen years before 1776. The Declaration is used here as an ideological road map by which to chart the intellectual and moral terrain traveled by American Revolutionaries as they searched for new moral principles to deal with the changed political circumstances of the 1760s and early 1770s. This volume identifies and analyzes the modes of reasoning, the patterns of thought, and the new moral and political principles that served American Revolutionaries first in their intellectual battle with Great Britain before 1776 and then in their attempt to create new Revolutionary societies after 1776. The book reconstructs what amounts to a near-unified system of thought—what Thomas Jefferson called an “American mind” or what I call “America’s Revolutionary mind.” This American mind was, I argue, united in its fealty to a common philosophy that was expressed in the Declaration and launched with the words, “We hold these truths to be self-evident.”
Author : James Darsey
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814719244
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)
Download or read book Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America written by James Darsey and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This expansive volume traces the rhetoric of reform across American history, examining such pivotal periods as the American Revolution, slavery, McCarthyism, and today's gay liberation movement. At a time when social movements led by religious leaders, from Louis Farrakhan to Pat Buchanan, are playing a central role in American politics, James Darsey connects this radical tradition with its prophetic roots. Public discourse in the West is derived from the Greek principles of civility, diplomacy, compromise, and negotiation. On this model, radical speech is often taken to be a sympton of social disorder. Not so, contends Darsey, who argues that the rhetoric of reform in America represents the continuation of a tradition separate from the commonly accepted principles of the Greeks. Though the links have gone unrecognized, the American radical tradition stems not from Aristotle, he maintains, but from the prophets of the Hebrew Bible.
Author : Andrew Whitmore Robertson
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813923444
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Language of Democracy written by Andrew Whitmore Robertson and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the history of political rhetoric in nineteenth-century America and Britain, Andrew W. Robertson shows how modern election campaigning was born. Robertson discusses early political cartoons and electioneering speeches as he examines the role of each nation's press in assimilating masses of new voters into the political system. Even a decade after the American Revolution, the authors shows, British and American political culture had much in common. On both sides of the Atlantic, electioneering in the 1790s was confined mostly to male elites, and published speeches shared a characteristically Neoclassical rhetoric. As voting rights were expanded, however, politicians sought a more effective medium and style for communicating with less-educated audiences. Comparing changes in the modes of in the two countries, Robertson reconstructs the transformation of campaign rhetoric into forms that incorporated the oral culture of the stump speech as well as elite print culture. By the end of the nineteenth century, the press had become the primary medium for initiating, persuading, and sustaining loyal partisan audiences. In Britain and America, millions of men participated in a democratic political culture that spoke their language, played to their prejudices, and courted their approval. Today's readers concerned with broadening political discourse to reach a more diverse audience will find rich and intriguing parallels in Robertson's account.
Author : Barry Ray Bell
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Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Ideology and Rhetoric of the American Revolution written by Barry Ray Bell and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Dickerson Brandes
Publisher : Prentice Hall
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Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Rhetoric of Revolt written by Paul Dickerson Brandes and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1971 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Lucas
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Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)
Download or read book Portents of Rebellion written by Stephen Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Howard Browne
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611176603
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Ides of War written by Stephen Howard Browne and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history and analysis of how George Washington stopped an attempted military coup at the end of the American Revolutionary War. History tells us that on a day when the forces of civil government confront the forces of military might, no one knows what may follow. Americans believe that they have avoided this moment, that whatever other challenges the country has faced, at least it never has had to deal with the prospects of a coup d’état. Stephen Howard Browne maintains that this view is mistaken, that in fact the United States faced such a crisis, at the very moment when the country announced its arrival on the world scene in the spring of 1783 in a rustic meeting hall along the Hudson River near Newburgh, New York. The crisis was resolved by George Washington, commander in chief of the US Army, in an address he delivered to a roomful of restive and deeply disaffected officers. In The Ides of War, Browne examines the resolution of the first confrontation between the forces of American civil government and the American military—the Newburgh Crisis. He tells the story of what transpired on that day, examines what was said, and suggests what we might learn from the affair. Browne shows that George Washington’s Newburgh Address is a stunning example of the power of human agency to broker one of our most persistent, most troublesome dilemmas: the rival claims to power of civil and military authorities. At stake in this story are biding questions about the meaning and legacy of revolution, the nature of republican government, and ultimately what kind of people we are and profess to be. Browne holds that although these are monolithic and vexed themes, they are vital and need to be confronted to obtain a coherent and convincing account of history. The Newburgh Crisis offers an unmatched opportunity to examine these themes, as well as the role of rhetoric in the founding of the world’s first modern republic. “Few speeches have shaped the course of American history more than George Washington’s address to his potentially mutinous officers in Newburgh, New York, on March 15, 1783. In this splendid book, Browne deftly brings to life the Newburgh conspiracy, Washington’s masterful response to it, and the lasting implications of both for civil-military relations in a republican government.” —Stephen Lucas, Evjue-Bascom Professor in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin “This elegant and persuasive book expands our knowledge of a little known but hugely significant turning point in American history, one that set it on course toward liberty and democracy. In the process, Browne brings new understanding to the founding of the United States, its military system, and its first commander in chief.” —Richard H. Kohn, professor emeritus of history and peace, war, and defense, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
