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Farmers In Court: Orange County, North Carolina, 1750-1776, Richard Bushman
Farmers In Court: Orange County, North Carolina, 1750-1776, Richard Bushman
CGU Faculty Publications and Research
Anyone studying farmers in early American must go to court, as the farmers themselves did so often throughout their lives. As young farmers, they registered deeds to their first lands or received inheritances from their fathers at courts; as old men, they passed on farms to their children. At every stage, they went to court to sue for debt or be sued, to petition for mills or taverns, to have roads laid out and repaired, and to register cattle marks. In most places, county courts imposed the taxes assessed to the farmers' names on the tax lists. If a farmer …
A Poet, A Planter, And A Nation Of Farmers, Richard Bushman
A Poet, A Planter, And A Nation Of Farmers, Richard Bushman
CGU Faculty Publications and Research
For the past few days in Harpers Ferry we have been inventing and reinventing American nationalism in a marvelous variegation of scholarly papers. We have heard about nationalism and travel, nationalism and antislavery women, nationalism and male identity--and southern artisans, and black nationalists, and even luxury hotels. Although we try to put ironic distance between ourselves and the more egregious forms of nationalism, the papers seem to share the popular fascination with American identity. We cannot resist staring into history and asking who we are as a nation, how did we come to be so wonderful, and why have we …
The Rise And Fall Of Civility In America: The Genteel Republic, Richard Bushman
The Rise And Fall Of Civility In America: The Genteel Republic, Richard Bushman
CGU Faculty Publications and Research
Ours is not the first age to feel pangs of anxiety about the decline of civility, refinement, and manners. Two centuries ago, the currents of revolution stirred similar fears among many of America's Founding Fathers. To these creatures of the Enlightenment, living in their Virgina plantation houses and Philadelphia mansions, manners and refinement ranked with the rule of law, the development of science, and the practice of the arts as the greatest of civilization's achievements.