Author: Michael F. Holt
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: 1850s, crisis, political
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1983-09-17
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 039395370X
ISBN-13: 9780393953701

Professor Holt’s book provides a lucid and provocative interpretation of the coming of the Civil War. Holt sees the Civil War as representing a breakdown in America’s democratic political process, more specifically the Second Party System of Whigs and Democrats. He demonstrates this system’s success, beginning in the 1820s and 1830s, in confining sectional disputes safely within the political arena. With the breakdown of vital two-party competition in the 1850s, sectional issues increasingly took on ideological dimension, causing, Americans North and South to see in them dan

Author: Jason C Kuo
Publisher: New Academia Publishing, LLC
Keywords: 1930s, 1850s, shanghai, culture, visual
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2007-04-30
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 0978771389
ISBN-13: 9780978771386

Visual Culture in Shanghai, 1850s-1930s is a study of formal and informal meanings of Haipai ("Shanghai School" or "Shanghai Style"), as seen through the paintings of the Shanghai school as well as other media of visual representation. The book provides us a point of entry into the nexus of relationships that structured the encounter between China and the West as experienced by the treaty-port Chinese in their everyday life. Exploring such relationships gives us a better sense of the ultimate significance of Shanghai’s rise as China’s dominant metropolitan center. This book will ap

Author: Xiao-huang Yin
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: american, experience, asian, literature, chinese, 1850s
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2000-05-09
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0252025245
ISBN-13: 9780252025242

CHINESE AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE THE 1850S traces the origins and development of this extensive and largely neglected body of literature written in English as well as in Chinese, assessing its style and placing it in a broad social and historical context. This essential volume, a much-needed guide to the field, shows how change and continuity in the Chinese American experience are reflected in the writings of immigrants from China and their descendants in the United States. Using a fresh approach that combines literary and historical scholarship, Xiao-huang Yin covers representati

Author: Robert Bocking Stevens
Publisher: Lawbook Exchange
Keywords: legal, 1980s, studies, 1850s, history, america, school, education, law
Number of Pages: 334
Published: 2001-09
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 1584771992
ISBN-13: 9781584771999

Stevens, Robert. Law School: Legal Education in America from the 1850s to the 1980s.Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, [1983]. xvi, 334 pp. Reprinted 2001 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-199-2. Cloth. $85. Comprehensive history of over a century of legal education in America. Examines the law school institution and its impact on the legal profession and the society it serves. This highly lauded work won a Certificate of Merit from the American Bar Association upon its original publication. Stevens’ distinguished career in education and law includes his seve

Author: Agnes Lee
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: lee, agnes, journal, 1850s, growing
Number of Pages: 171
Published: 1988-09-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0807842435
ISBN-13: 9780807842430