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Daniel Walker HOWE, What Hath God Wrought. The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, New York, Oxford University Press, 2007, 904 p. ISBN: 978 019 507894 7. 35 dollars.
No full textLe livre de Daniel Walker Howe vient avantageusement enrichir la collection consacrée à l’histoire des États-Unis (Oxford History of the United States) publiée par les Presses universitaires d’Oxford. La première phrase du titre est empruntée au message-test envoyé par Samuel Morse pour démontrer l’efficacité de la nouvelle version du télégraphe dont il était le concepteur. Daniel W. Howe utilise cette citation extraite de l’Ancien Testament (Livre des Nombres, 23 :23) pour annoncer le fil di..
Making the American self Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln
No full textDaniel Howe considers the ideas Americans once had about a proper construction of the self. Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Horace Bushnell, Horace Mann, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, William Ellery Channing, Dorothea Dix, Frederick Douglass, among others, engaged in discussion about the composition of human nature, the motivation of human behavior, and what can be done about the social problems these create. They shared a common model of human psychology, in which powerful but base passions must be mastered by reason in the service of virtue. How to accomplish this was often itself a subject of passionate controversy. The story reveals that Americans both distrusted individual autonomy and were enthusiastic about it; passions, reason, and moral sense collided on how to manage it. Howe is empathetic to all the quests - for elites and artisans, blacks and women - seeing in them a basic pursuit of identity. The author demonstrates that aspirations for "self-control" and "self-discipline," grounded in conservatism and evangelical Christianity, also shaped movements that branched leftward to promote social welfare, feminism, and civil rights. The desire for personal autonomy and self-construction is a historical bedrock of the nation's ethos
America’s Coming of Age: Daniel Walker Howe’s What Hath God Wrought
No full textAccording to Daniel Walker Howe, the three decades between the end of the War of 1812 and the end of the Mexican War (1848) witnessed “the transformation of America.”1 Of what did this transformation consist? What drove it? What were its larger implications? These questions lie at the very center of historical writing about the early and middle decades of nineteenth- century America. Howe’s monumental effort goes far in answering them. In the process, he upends several well-known interpretations of the so-called Jacksonian period
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
No full textThe Technological Revolution Daniel Walker Howe\u27s contribution to the Oxford History of the United States series deserves the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for History that it recently won, and it provides excellent company to the other illustrious volumes in that seriesùincluding James McPhe...
List of participants in the Seminar on "The American Social Order and its Culture: Aspects of High and Popular Culture", Dubrovnik, 1982
No full textList of participants in the Seminar on "The American Social Order and its Culture: Aspects of High and Popular Culture", Dubrovnik, October 25 - November 4 1982.: Sonja Bašić, Željko Bujas, Rudolf Filipović, Darko Glavan, Omer Dadžiselimović, Hendrik Hartog, Daniel Walker Howe, Cynthia Kinnard, Dragan Klaić, Aleksandra-Sanja Lazarević, Walter Meserve, Zvonimir Radeljković, Stephen J. Stein, Ogla Supek Zupan, Ivo Vidan
The Nightingale\u27s Burden: Women Poets and American Culture Before 1900
No full textIn this evocative exploration, Cheryl Walker shows that there is a distinct tradition of women\u27s poetry in America—one that the poets themselves have not always been fully aware of—and that individual poems can be read as manifestations of that tradition. Philomela, the nightingale of literary mythology, serves as a model for women poets, representing simultaneously both their particular forms of power and the frustrating powerlessness imposed on them by the cultural norms for women. The author identifies a number of archetypal motifs: the power fantasy, the sanctuary poem, the renunciation poem, the forbidden lover poem, the burden of beauty, and the secret sorrow. Among the poets discussed are Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley, Lydia Sigourney, Frances Osgood, Julia Ward Howe, Margaret Fuller, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, and Louise Guiney.https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_facbooks/1018/thumbnail.jp
El Pulitzer de Historia
No full textWhat Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815-1848, de Daniel Walker Howe, ha sido el ganador de este galardón en 2008. Howe es profesor emérito en Oxford y en la UCLA. En cuanto a los finalistas, han sido Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power, de Robert Dallek y The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, deDavid Halberstam. Añadamos el premio que se concede dentro del apartado de "General Nonfiction", que ha recaído en Saul Friedlander, otro historiador de la UCLA, por Th..
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