Dangerous neighbors : making the Haitian Revolution in early America. / / James Alexander Dun

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910798579503321
• Autore: Dun James Alexander
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 0-8122-9297-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (351 pages)
• Collana: Early American Studies
• Disciplina: 972.9403
• Soggetti: HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800); Haiti History Revolution, 1791-1804
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Making Revolution in Philadelphia -- Chapter 1. France In Miniature: Naming the Revolution -- Chapter 2. Unthinking Revolution: French Negroes and Liberty -- Chapter 3. The Negrophile Republic: Emancipation and Revolution -- Chapter 4. Making Places of Liberty: Emancipation and Antislavery -- Chapter 5. Black Jacobins: Saint Domingue in American Politics -- Chapter 6. Second Revolutions: Saint Domingue and Jeffersonian America -- Chapter 7. Naming Hayti: The End of the Revolution in Philadelphia -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: Dangerous Neighbors shows how the Haitian Revolution permeated early American print culture and had a profound impact on the young nation's domestic politics. Focusing on Philadelphia as both a representative and an influential vantage point, it follows contemporary American reactions to the events through which the French colony of Saint Domingue was destroyed and the independent nation of Haiti emerged. Philadelphians made sense of the news from Saint Domingue with local and national political developments in mind and with the French Revolution and British abolition debates ringing in their ears. In witnessing a French colony experience a revolution of African slaves, they made the colony serve as powerful and persuasive evidence in domestic discussions over the meaning of citizenship, equality of ; rights, and the fate of slavery.Through extensive use of manuscript sources, newspapers, and printed literature, Dun uncovers the wide range of opinion and debate about events in Saint Domingue in the early republic. By focusing on both the meanings Americans gave to those events and the uses they put them to, he reveals a fluid understanding of the American Revolution and the polity it had produced, one in which various groups were making sense of their new nation in relation to both its own past and a revolution unfolding before them. Zeroing in on Philadelphia—a revolutionary center and an enclave of antislavery activity—Dun collapses the supposed geographic and political boundaries that separated the American republic from the West Indies and Europe.

Polis and personification in classical Athenian art [[electronic resource] /] / by Amy C. Smith

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781477903321
• Autore: Smith Amy Claire <1966->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-16114-1; 9786613161147; 90-04-21452-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Collana: Monumenta Graeca et Romana ; ; v. 19
• Disciplina: 709.38/5
• Soggetti: Art, Greek - Greece - Athens - Themes, motives; Art, Classical - Greece - Athens - Themes, motives; Personification in art; Art and society - Greece - Athens; Athens (Greece) Symbolic representation
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography (p. [xiii]-xxxix) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material / A. C. Smith -- Chapter One. Introduction: Viewing Personifications In Classical Athens / A. C. Smith -- Chapter Two. Names Or Comments? The Birth Of Political Personification In ; Greece / A. C. Smith -- Chapter Three. Humanising Greek Places And Spaces: Local Personifications And Athenian Imperialism / A. C. Smith -- Chapter Four. Goddess Before Personification? Right And Retribution / A. C. Smith -- Chapter Five. The Independence Of Epithets: Kharites, Virtues, and Other Nymphs In The ‘Gardens Of Aphrodite’ / A. C. Smith -- Chapter Six. Aristocracy Or Democracy? Eukleia And Eunomia Between The Gods / A. C. Smith -- Chapter Seven. Visual Personifications In Literature And Art: Aristophanes’ Eirene And Her Attendants / A. C. Smith -- Chapter Eight. Ephemeral Personifications: Civic Festivals And Other Peacetime Pleasures / A. C. Smith -- Chapter Nine. Masculine People In Feminine Places: The Body Politic At Home And Abroad / A. C. Smith -- Chapter Ten. The Mother Of Wealth: Eirene Revisited / A. C. Smith -- Chapter Eleven. From Oikos To Polis: Democracy And More Civic Virtues In Fourth Century Athens / A. C. Smith -- Chapter Twelve. Conclusion / A. C. Smith -- Catalogue / A. C. Smith -- Indices / A. C. Smith -- Figures / A. C. Smith.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this study Dr Smith investigates the use of political personifications in the visual arts of Athens in the Classical period (480-323 BCE). Whether on objects that served primarily private roles (e.g. decorated vases) or public roles (e.g. cult statues and document stelai), these personifications represented aspects of the state of Athens—its people, government, and events—as well as the virtues (e.g. Nemesis, Peitho or Persuasion, and Eirene or Peace) that underpinned it. Athenians used the same figural language to represent other places and their peoples. This is the only study that uses personifications as a lens through which to view the intellectual and political climate of Athens in the Classical period.