The World of Antebellum America [2 volumes]

The World of Antebellum America [2 volumes]
Author: Alexandra Kindell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 1083
Release: 2018-09-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1440837112

This set provides insight into the lives of ordinary Americans free and enslaved, in farms and cities, in the North and the South, who lived during the years of 1815 to 1860. Throughout the Antebellum Era resonated the theme of change: migration, urban growth, the economy, and the growing divide between North and South all led to great changes to which Americans had to respond. By gathering the important aspects of antebellum Americans' lives into an encyclopedia, The World of Antebellum America provides readers with the opportunity to understand how people across America lived and worked, what politics meant to them, and how they shaped or were shaped by economics. Entries on simple topics such as bread and biscuits explore workers' need for calories, the role of agriculture, and gendered divisions of labor, while entries on more complex topics, such as aging and death, disclose Americans' feelings about life itself. Collectively, the entries pull the reader into the lives of ordinary Americans, while section introductions tie together the entries and provide an overarching narrative that primes readers to understand key concepts about antebellum America before delving into Americans' lives in detail.

Antebellum America

Antebellum America
Author: William Dudley
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: United States
ISBN: 9780737707182

Contains primary and secondary source articles that document significant developments and events in the history of the United states from 1784 to 1850, discussing the formation of the government, expansion, the Jacksonian age and Manifest Destiny.

The World of Jim Crow America [2 volumes]

The World of Jim Crow America [2 volumes]
Author: Steven A. Reich
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 627
Release: 2019-06-24
Genre: History
ISBN:

This two-volume set is a thematically-arranged encyclopedia covering the social, political, and material culture of America during the Jim Crow Era. What was daily life really like for ordinary African American people in Jim Crow America, the hundred-year period of enforced legal segregation that began immediately after the Civil War and continued until the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965? What did they eat, wear, believe, and think? How did they raise their children? How did they interact with government? What did they value? What did they do for fun? This Daily Life encyclopedia explores the lives of average people through the examination of social, cultural, and material history. Supported by the most current research, the multivolume set examines social history topics—including family, political, religious, and economic life—as it illuminates elements of a society's emotional life, interactions, opinions, views, beliefs, intimate relationships, and connections between individuals and the greater world. It is broken up into topical sections, each dealing with a different aspect of cultural life. Each section opens with an introductory essay, followed by A–Z entries on various aspects of that topic.

An Antebellum Plantation Household

An Antebellum Plantation Household
Author: Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2006
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9781570036347

This receipt book provides a flavorful record of plantation cooking, folk medicine, travel, and social life in the antebellum South, with 82 recently discovered additional receipts.

The World of the Civil War [2 volumes]

The World of the Civil War [2 volumes]
Author: Lisa . Tendrich Frank
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 794
Release: 2015-07-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1440829799

Covering everything from the arts to food and drink, religion, social customs, and technology, this two-volume set provides an in-depth, accessible look at the social, cultural, economic, and political aspects of the American Civil War. The American Civil War caused dramatic changes in every aspect of life and society, affecting combatants and noncombatants at all levels of the socioeconomic scale. The World of the Civil War: A Daily Life Encyclopedia offers an accessible and reliable reference for the major topics that defined American life during the nation's most tumultuous era. Taking a blended approach to history, this book covers the military and political history of the era and examines the social and human experiences of the war, thereby offering a comprehensive look at the Civil War era's most significant events, people, places, and experiences. The thematic organization of this encyclopedia helps readers to more readily explore related topics. The subject matter explored in some 250 entries includes religious beliefs and practices; rites of passage; soldiers' lives and experiences; rural and urban life; social structure of the Civil War era—aristocrats, landowners, and slaves; men's and women's roles and responsibilities; holidays, festivals, and other celebrations; tools, machinery, and inventions; and justice and punishment. Readers will come away with an understanding of many aspects of daily life during the Civil War era and gain appreciation for the vast differences between life today and 150 years ago.

American Literature in Transition, 1820–1860: Volume 2

American Literature in Transition, 1820–1860: Volume 2
Author: Justine S. Murison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 765
Release: 2022-06-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108675565

The essays in American Literature in Transition, 1820-1860 offer a new approach to the antebellum era, one that frames the age not merely as the precursor to the Civil War but as indispensable for understanding present crises around such issues as race, imperialism, climate change, and the role of literature in American society. The essays make visible and usable the period's fecund imagined futures, futures that certainly included disunion but not only disunion. Tracing the historical contexts, literary forms and formats, global coordinates, and present reverberations of antebellum literature and culture, the essays in this volume build on existing scholarship while indicating exciting new avenues for research and teaching. Taken together, the essays in this volume make this era's literature relevant for a new generation of students and scholars.

The Antebellum Period

The Antebellum Period
Author: James M. Volo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Popular culture
ISBN:

Examines American cultural life and its influences during the period of 1820 to 1860, covering such topics as food, recreation, fashion, music, art, literature, travel, and the world of youth.

The Lane Rebels

The Lane Rebels
Author: Lawrence Thomas Lesick
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 1980
Genre: History
ISBN:

Women in American History [4 volumes]

Women in American History [4 volumes]
Author: Peg A. Lamphier
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 1942
Release: 2017-01-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1610696034

This four-volume set documents the complexity and richness of women's contributions to American history and culture, empowering all students by demonstrating a more populist approach to the past. Based on the content of most textbooks, it would be easy to reach the erroneous conclusion that women have not contributed much to America's history and development. Nothing could be further from the truth. Offering comprehensive coverage of women of a diverse range of cultures, classes, ethnicities, religions, and sexual identifications, this four-volume set identifies the many ways in which women have helped to shape and strengthen the United States. This encyclopedia is organized into four chronological volumes, with each volume further divided into three sections. Each section features an overview essay and thematic essay as well as detailed entries on topics ranging from Lady Gaga to Ladybird Johnson, Lucy Stone, and Lucille Ball, and from the International Ladies of Rhythm to the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. The set also includes a vast variety of primary documents, such as personal letters, public papers, newspaper articles, recipes, and more. These primary documents enhance users' learning opportunities and enable readers to better connect with the subject matter.