The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth. The standard account credits founders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. ...Anthony, and Lucretia Mott with defining and then leading the campaign for women's suffrage. In her provocative new history, Lisa Tetrault demonstrates that Stanton, Anthony, and their peers gradually created and popularized this origins story during the second half of the nineteenth century in response to internal movement dynamics as well as the racial politics of memory after the Civil War. The founding mythology that coalesced in their speeches and writings--most notably Stanton and Anthony'sHistory of Woman Suffrage--provided younger activists with the vital resource of a usable past for the ongoing struggle, and it helped consolidate Stanton and Anthony's leadership against challenges from the grassroots and rival suffragists.As Tetrault shows, while this mythology has narrowed our understanding of the early efforts to champion women's rights, the myth of Seneca Falls itself became an influential factor in the suffrage movement. And along the way, its authors amassed the first archive of feminism and literally invented the modern discipline of women's history.
The 1783 Treaty of Paris, which officially recognized the United States as a sovereign republic, also doubled the territorial girth of the original thirteen colonies. The fledgling nation now ...stretched from the coast of Maine to the Mississippi River and up to the Great Lakes. With this dramatic expansion, argues author Bethel Saler, the United States simultaneously became a postcolonial republic and gained a domestic empire. The competing demands of governing an empire and a republic inevitably collided in the early American West.The Settlers' Empiretraces the first federal endeavor to build states wholesale out of the Northwest Territory, a process that relied on overlapping colonial rule over Euro-American settlers and the multiple Indian nations in the territory. These entwined administrations involved both formal institution building and the articulation of dominant cultural customs that, in turn, served also to establish boundaries of citizenship and racial difference.
In the Northwest Territory, diverse populations of newcomers and Natives struggled over the region's geographical and cultural definition in areas such as religion, marriage, family, gender roles, and economy. The success or failure of state formation in the territory thus ultimately depended on what took place not only in the halls of government but also on the ground and in the everyday lives of the region's Indians, Francophone creoles, Euro- and African Americans, and European immigrants. In this way,The Settlers' Empirespeaks to historians of women, gender, and culture, as well as to those interested in the early national state, the early West, settler colonialism, and Native history.
Recollections Tocqueville, Alexis de; Zunz, Olivier; Goldhammer, Arthur
2016
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In this new edition, Zunz highlights the persistent influence of the United States on the life and work of a man who tirelessly, albeit futilely, promoted the American model of government for the New ...French Republic.
Die Erinnerung an den Ausbruch der Revolution im Frühjahr 1848 ist bislang vor allem als posthumes Phänomen untersucht worden, das zu den ‚runden‘ Jubiläen verlässlich wiederkehrt. Die ...Erinnerungsgeschichte spielte jedoch bereits anlässlich des ersten Revolutionsjubiläums 1849 eine zentrale Rolle, als der Ausgang der Revolution noch völlig offen war. Die Feiern, die europaweit stattfanden, waren ein performativer Ausdruck einer noch vorläufigen Revolutionsbilanz, sie dienten den Revolutionären wie ihren Gegnern zur Selbstvergewisserung und politischen Mobilisierung. Der Beitrag nähert sich diesem „Streit der Erben“ zu Lebzeiten, indem er erstens die Feiern der Februarrevolution als grenzüberschreitendes Ereignis in den Fokus rückt und deren europäische Dimension wie auch deren lokale Verankerung betont. Die Staatsakte und Bankette fanden nicht nur in Paris, sondern auch in der Provinz, in den Nachbarländern und sogar in Großbritannien statt und verfolgten unterschiedliche Ziele. Zweitens standen die Feiern zudem in Beziehung und Konkurrenz zu den Märzfeiern der nationalen und lokalen Revolutionsausbrüche, die an unterschiedlichen Tagen begangen wurden und jeweils eigene Akzente setzten. Die Veranstaltungen kreierten einen unabgeschlossenen, originellen und einmaligen Symbolkanon, der transnational geprägt war und auch politische Gegensätze integrieren konnte. In der lebendigen öffentlichen Erinnerung an das Vorjahr erscheint das Jahr 1849 als eine große Zeit der Möglichkeiten, in der um die Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft der Revolution gestritten wurde.
Das Buch analysiert die Exekutiven, die zur Durchsetzung der revolutionären Ziele in Deutschland 1848/49 eingerichtet wurden. Im Mittelpunkt des Bandes steht die Provisorische Zentralgewalt für ...Deutschland. Es wird deren Entstehung, Aufbau wie deren Politik, Funktion und Bedeutung in der deutschen Revolution von 1848/49 untersucht. Ergänzend werden die gleichzeitigen Provisorischen Regierungen in Schleswig-Holstein, Sachsen, Baden und der Pfalz betrachtet – erstmals systematisch und vergleichend. Es erschließen sich in mancherlei Hinsicht neue Perspektiven auf die bürgerliche Revolution in Deutschland.
The article presents the French Revolution of 1848 as the backdrop that exposes both the similarities and differences within the liberal tradition in the 19th century. It examines and compares ...Guizot’s, Tocqueville’s and Mill’s interpretations, focusing on four analytical axes: the context from which each thinker offers his observations; their inquiry into the causes of the revolution and the role of political leadership; their respective assessment of the unleashed social conflict and socialist ideas, and finally, their considerations on the new form of order established after the crisis. The concluding section highlights their trajectories post 1848 and revisits the main conclusion drawn from this comparative approach.
El artículo presenta a la revolución francesa de 1848 como el telón de fondo que deja al descubierto las similitudes y las diferencias que se advierten al interior de la tradición liberal en el siglo XIX. En él se examinan y comparan las lecturas que, sobre ella, ofrecieron Guizot, Tocqueville y Mill a partir de cuatro ejes de análisis: el lugar desde el cual cada uno ofrece sus observaciones; su interrogación acerca de las causas de la revolución y el rol de los liderazgos políticos; la apreciación respectiva sobre el conflicto social desatado y la prédica socialista y, por último, las consideraciones sobre las nuevas formas del orden instaurado tras la crisis. En la sección final se señalan los sentidos que habrán de tomar las trayectorias de cada uno de estos pensadores con posterioridad a 1848 y se retoman las principales conclusiones arrojadas por esta aproximación comparativa.
An American language Lozano, Rosina
2018., 20180424, 2018, 2018-09-20, Letnik:
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An American Language is a tour de force that revolutionizes our understanding of U.S. history. It reveals the origins of Spanish as a language binding residents of the Southwest to the politics and ...culture of an expanding nation in the 1840s. As the West increasingly integrated into the United States over the following century, struggles over power, identity, and citizenship transformed the place of the Spanish language in the nation. An American Language is a history that reimagines what it means to be an American—with profound implications for our own time.
