Author: Thomas Ainge DevyrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land, Nationalization of
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
The Odd Book of the Nineteenth Century, Or, "Chivalry" in Modern Days
Author: Thomas Ainge DevyrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land, Nationalization of
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
The Odd Book of the Nineteenth Century, Or "Chivalry" in Modern Days, a Personal Record of Reform-chiefly Land Reform, for the Last Fifty Years
Author: Thomas Ainge DevyrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
The Odd Book of the Nineteenth Century, Or Chivalry in Modern Days
Author: Thomas Ainge DevyrPublisher:
ISBN: 9781332421701
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
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The Odd Book of the Nineteenth Century, Or, Chivalry in Modern Days, a Personal Record of Reform--Chiefly Land Reform, for the Last Fifty Years
Author: Thomas Ainge DevyrPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781290927925
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
The Anti-Rent Era in New York Law and Politics, 1839-1865
Author: Charles W. McCurdyPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807860875
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
A compelling blend of legal and political history, this book chronicles the largest tenant rebellion in U.S. history. From its beginning in the rural villages of eastern New York in 1839 until its collapse in 1865, the Anti-Rent movement impelled the state's governors, legislators, judges, and journalists, as well as delegates to New York's bellwether constitutional convention of 1846, to wrestle with two difficult problems of social policy. One was how to put down violent tenant resistance to the enforcement of landlord property and contract rights. The second was how to abolish the archaic form of land tenure at the root of the rent strike. Charles McCurdy considers the public debate on these questions from a fresh perspective. Instead of treating law and politics as dependent variables--as mirrors of social interests or accelerators of social change--he highlights the manifold ways in which law and politics shaped both the pattern of Anti-Rent violence and the drive for land reform. In the process, he provides a major reinterpretation of the ideas and institutions that diminished the promise of American democracy in the supposed "golden age" of American law and politics.
Aiding Ireland
Author: Anelise Hanson ShroutPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479824607
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Looks at the ways that disparate groups used Irish famine relief in the 1840s to advance their own political agendas Famine brought ruin to the Irish countryside in the nineteenth century. In response, people around the world and from myriad social, ethnic, and religious backgrounds became involved in Irish famine relief. They included enslaved Black people in Virginia, poor tenant farmers in rural New York, and members of the Cherokee and Choctaw nations, as well as plantation owners in the US south, abolitionists in Pennsylvania, and, politicians in England and Ireland. Most of these people had no personal connection to Ireland. For many, the famine was their first time participating in distant philanthropy. Aiding Ireland investigates the Irish famine as a foundational moment for normalizing international giving. Anelise Hanson Shrout argues that these diverse men and women found famine relief to be politically useful. Shrout takes readers from Ireland to Britain, across the Atlantic to the United States, and across the Mississippi to Indian Territory, uncovering what was to be gained for each group by participating in global famine relief. Aiding Ireland demonstrates that international philanthropy and aid are never simple, and are always intertwined with politics both at home and abroad.
The Anglo-American Connection in the Early Nineteenth Century
Author: Frank ThistlethwaitePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512819026
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Citizen Worker
Author: David MontgomeryPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521483803
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Discusses the relationship between workers and the government by focusing not on the legal regulation of unions and strikes, but on popular struggles for citizenship rights.
Lords of Misrule
Author: A. TaylorPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230514006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Flamboyant, cultured and refined, aristocracy is often seen as a national treasure. Lords of Misrule takes a different view and considers the role of an aristocracy behaving badly. This is a book about the political, social and moral failings of aristocracy and the ways in which they have featured in political rhetoric. Drawing on the views of critics of aristocracy, it explores the dark side of power without responsibility. Less 'patrician paragons' than dissolute and debauched debtors, the aristocrats featured here undermined, rather than augmented, the fabric of national life. For the first time, Lords of Misrule recaptures the views of those radicals and reformers who were prepared to contemplate a Britain without aristocrats.
Young America
Author: Mark A. LausePublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252091698
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The National Reform Association (NRA) was an antebellum land reform movement inspired by the shared dream of a future shaped by egalitarian homesteads. Mark A. Lause's Young America argues that it was these working people's interest in equitable access to the country's most obvious asset--land--that led them to advocate a federal homestead act granting land to the landless, state legislation to prohibit the foreclosure of family farms, and antimonopolistic limitations on land ownership. Rooting the movement in contemporary economic structures and social ideology, Young America examines this urban and working-class "agrarianism," demonstrating how the political preoccupations of this movement transformed socialism by drawing its adherents from communitarian preoccupations into political action. The alliance of the NRA's land reformers and radical abolitionists led unprecedented numbers to petition Congress and established the foundations of what became the new Republican Party, promising "Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men."
