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Localités And Early Modern Britain, Newton E. Key
Localités And Early Modern Britain, Newton E. Key
Newton Key
In early modem England local identity often was more important than national identity, and "country" as often meant one's native shire as one's nation state.
Introduction: Localités And Nationalism As The Vestigial And The Lncipient?, Newton E. Key
Introduction: Localités And Nationalism As The Vestigial And The Lncipient?, Newton E. Key
Newton Key
The professionalization of history was tightly bound to nationalism. Historians in early modern Europe distinguished between story and inventory: chronology and chorography. The latter was the domain of the local antiquarian and county historian. Even as local history professionalized and cut its antiquarian/chorographical roots, the profession still marginalized it, and local history was mainly published by antiquarian or local societies. Even those who carved out a field distinct from national history, such as the German genre of Landesgeschicte (regional or provincial history), were considered subordinate if not actually suspect endeavors by the profession. Recently, however, European historians have embraced the …
Rural African Americans And Progressive Reform, Debra A. Reid
Rural African Americans And Progressive Reform, Debra A. Reid
Debra A. Reid
Histories of African Americans in the postbellum rural South tend to depict sharecroppers and tenants as victims of the crop lien system, racism, and the capitalization of agriculture. This paper concentrates instead on rural re? formers who celebrated life in the country and believed that comfortable homes, better schools, and wholesome residents could free blacks from bondage. Their agrarian ideology reflected Euro-American influences; most believed in the Jeffersonian rhetoric that linked land ownership to virtue and independence. Because they realized that the crop lien system made prop? erty acquisition an impossible dream for most blacks, they advocated diversification and sustainable …
Review Of Searching For Hawa's Secret, John Stephen Brantley
Review Of Searching For Hawa's Secret, John Stephen Brantley
Steve Brantley
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